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From My Coal-Dead Kans. Veto override fails in Kansas; embattled coal plants remain dead		02 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:57 AM on 02 May 2008 Two new coal-fired power plants will not be built in western Kansas due to a failed attempt to override the governor's veto. The coal-plant saga began when a state environment official last year rejected Sunflower Energy's permit to build the new plants -- the first such rejection in the U.S. on the basis of carbon dioxide emissions. State legislators who had backed the plan ...
Topics: climate, coal, Kansas, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Decide Effects Kansas Supreme Court to hear case against landmark coal-plant permit denial		30 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 7:02 AM on 30 Nov 2007 In October, Kansas made an important first by denying a construction permit to a coal-fired power plant due to its carbon dioxide emissions, saying such emissions could harm human health and the environment. The companies behind the $3.6 billion project, as well as other business groups, were outraged by the decision. (Enviros rejoiced.) Attack ads were launched and lawsui ...
Topics: climate, coal, Kansas, litigation, news (all these topics)

Coming in From the Coal Kansas denies permit for coal-fired power plant due to concern over CO2 emissions		19 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 7:45 AM on 19 Oct 2007 The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday became the first government agency in the United States to reject a permit for construction of a coal-fired power plant based on its carbon dioxide emissions, saying such emissions could harm human health and the environment. The final decision rested with secretary of the KDHE, Roderick Bremby, who ...
Topics: climate, coal, Kansas, news (all these topics)

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