TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A new proposal for allowing two coal-fired
power plants in southwest Kansas has emerged from a House
committee.
The Energy and Utilities Committee's decision to endorse a new
bill comes only three days after Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoed
another bill.
The new bill contains the same provisions Sebelius opposed,
including the stripping of some of the secretary of health and
environment's power.
But the new bill would impose limits on the plants' carbon
dioxide emissions. They would be the first CO2 limits in state law.
Sunflower Electric Power Corp. wants to build the two plants
outside Holcomb, in Finney County. The $3.6 billion dollar project
has bipartisan legislative supportive.

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