After months of debate and legislative battles, Sunflower Electric Power Corp. will be allowed to build a new, coal-fired power plant in Southwest Kansas. Trace the history of the disagreement and look back on how we got here.
Video: State lawmakers racing to finalize coal deal
A day after Gov. Mark Parkinson announced a deal allowing one new coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas, state lawmakers are looking to move quickly to close the deal. Watch »
Video: Parkinson agrees to allow one coal power plant in Holcomb
One new coal-fired power plant could be on its way to southwest Kansas. Watch »
Video: House passes bill allowing coal plant construction
The Kansas House passes a bill allowing Sunflower Electric Power Corp. to build two coal-fired power plants in western Kansas. Watch »
Video: Coal company demands apology
The head of Sunflower Electric Power Corporation calls on Governor Kathleen Sebelius to reverse the denial of two coal-fired plants and asks for an apology. Watch »
Video: KDHE denies coal plant permit
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Rod Bremby denied Sunflower Electric Power Corporation a permit to build a large coal-fired power plant in western Kansas. Watch »
Governor's announcement on the coal plant agreement
Sunflower Electric Power Company's statement about the coal plant agreement
The Holcomb Expansion Project
After months of debate and legislative battles, Sunflower Electric Power Corp. will be allowed to build a new, coal-fired power plant in Southwest Kansas. Trace the history of the disagreement and look back on how we got here.
More Coal: Sunflower Power Corp
- U.S. court puts up roadblock on Sunflower Electric Power Corp. coal-burning power plant in Kansas
- January 31, 2012
- Environmentalists on Tuesday cheered a court ruling that the proposed 895-megawatt coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas cannot be built until there is a thorough environmental review.
- Judge orders environmental review in Sunflower Electric’s proposed coal-burning power plant
- January 31, 2012
- The decision was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan in Washington D.C. in the latest turn of events affecting the Sunflower Electric project near Holcomb.
- Environmental Protection Agency says KDHE lied in coal argument
- November 3, 2011
- An Environmental Protection Agency official has accused lawyers representing a Kansas agency of lying to the state Supreme Court about support for a permit that would allow a $2.8 billion coal-fired power plant to be built in southwest Kansas.
- Statehouse Live: Environmentalists seek to block western Kansas coal-burning plant
- August 15, 2011
- The Kansas Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, alleged the permit given to Sunflower Electric Power Corp. violates the federal Clean Air Act.
- KDHE had close ties with Sunflower Electric Co.
- June 20, 2011
- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment allowed operators of the Sunflower Electric Co. to answer public questions about the coal-fired electric plant that were intended to help shape permit requirements for the facility, according to a newspaper report.
- Federal judge sides with Sierra Club in ruling over coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas
- 01:29 p.m., March 31, 2011 Updated 02:11 p.m.
- A federal judge in Washington has sided with the Sierra Club in a legal dispute over a proposed coal-fired power plant in western Kansas, and an attorney for the environmental group predicted Thursday that the decision will at least delay the project.
- Statehouse Live: Sierra Club wants EPA to prevent construction of coal-fired plant in southwest Kansas
- 08:55 a.m., March 1, 2011 Updated 05:06 p.m.
- In a letter to EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks, the Kansas chapter of the Sierra Club says that state environmental officials at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment repeatedly failed to make the plant’s permit meet minimum requirements under the Clean Air Act.
- Nonprofit study says proposed Sunflower coal plant in southwest Kansas won’t be clean
- February 10, 2011
- A new study compiled for a group that opposes the proposed Sunflower coal plant in southwest Kansas questions claims that the coal plant will be the cleanest of its kind in the country.
- EPA questions air-quality permit for Kansas coal plant
- Federal officials concerned limits too lax
- February 6, 2011
- Federal officials said Friday that Kansas hasn’t imposed strict enough limits on the potential air pollution from a new coal-fired power plant in the southwest part of the state.
- CEO at Sunflower Electric Power Corp. plans to retire in 2012
- February 1, 2011
- The president and chief executive officer of a western Kansas utility that hopes to build a coal-fired power plant plans to retire early next year.
- Statehouse Live: Kansas officials express unhappiness with EPA over greenhouse gas rule
- January 26, 2011
- In December, KDHE issued a permit for a controversial 895-megawatt coal-fired plant in southwestern Kansas. EPA has said it will review whether the proposal complies with the law.
- Sierra Club files legal challenge to coal-burning power plant in southwest Kansas
- January 14, 2011
- The proposal by Sunflower Electric Power Corp. to build a coal-fired plant near Holcomb has been at the center of controversy for several years.
- Kansas state officials decline to detail why former KDHE secretary Bremby is still being paid, two months after resigning
- 08:45 a.m., December 30, 2010 Updated 01:31 p.m.
- The former secretary of the Kansas health and environment agency, who was ousted after refusing to issue a permit for a coal-fired plant in western Kansas, has been getting payments from the state since he left office in early November, according to a newspaper report.
- KDHE issues air quality permit for coal-burning power plant near Holcomb
- 09:41 a.m., December 16, 2010 Updated 03:55 p.m.
- The proposal by Sunflower Electric Power Corp. has been at the center of political fighting for more than three years.
- Parkinson defends actions in coal-burning power plant controversy
- 04:41 p.m., November 8, 2010 Updated 08:19 a.m.
- In a lengthy blog post, the governor said it didn’t matter to him whether a permit is issued for the proposed 895-megawatt unit in southwestern Kansas.
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