Coal-Fired Plant Defeated Due to Global Warming Emissions

Coal Plant Rejected Amid Kansas Whirlwind

In Brief: State authorities in Kansas reject a permit for two coal-fired power plants which would have polluted the state while exporting the power.

A precedent-setting shockwave swept out of Kansas (Oct. 18) and across the nation when that state became the first to reject a coal-fired power plant because of its global warming impacts. The Sunflower generation plant would have spewed 10 million tons of carbon dioxide annually. Earthjustice relied on legal tactics and public pressure from our Kansas activists to defeat the plant. Kansas now leads the national surge against coal power expansion.

Coal supporters react with anger, stealth

Emissions from a coal-fired power
plant As political and business leaders in Kansas vowed revenge over the Sunflower defeat, the state of Wyoming quietly approved an even dirtier coal plant, which Earthjustice is also challenging.

For more on these issues, see Earthjustice: http://www.earthjustice.org/our_work/victory/coal-plant-rejected-amid-kansas-whirlwind.html

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