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From My Coal-Dead Kans.
Veto override fails in Kansas; embattled coal plants remain dead |
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02 May 2008 |
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| 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 ... |
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