In a report today, the Kansas City Star shows the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and Sunflower Electric Power Corp. were in close contact when KDHE was writing the permit for Sunflower’s controversial 895 megawatt coal-burning power plant.

The newspaper reveals emails that show KDHE allowed Sunflower to respond to questions from the public about the project and used those answers as its own during the permit process.

Former KDHE Secretary Roderick Bremby, who denied Sunflower’s first permit, and then later was fired by Gov. Mark Parkinson after Sunflower officials and legislators who supported the project complained that Bremby was delaying the second permit process, reviewed the emails obtained by the Star and described them as “disgusting.” He added, “We are supposed to be working with the applicant but not for the applicant.”

Here is a link to the story: http://bit.ly/itonZU