Environmental

Clean Air Advocates Cheer Court Decision on Kansas Coal Plant Expansion

Sunflower project will face thorough environmental review, new administration decision

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Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 31, 2012.  Judge Emmett Sullivan, in the federal district court today, effectively blocked an 895-MW coal-fired power project in western Kansas—the notorious Sunflower expansion—until a thorough environmental review of the project is finalized. The decision emphasized the significant impacts to human health that would arise if the project was constructed.
The current Sunflower Electric Power Plant, Holcomb, KS. (DOE)
The current Sunflower Electric Power Plant in Holcomb, KS. (DOE)

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