The Kansas Supreme Court reversed a Kansas Department of Health and Environment permitting decision October 4 for the Sunflower Electric Corp.’s Holcomb Station power plant. In 2010, the department issued a prevention of significant deterioration permit for the coal-fired power plant. The Sierra Club filed a lawsuit, and the Supreme Court ruled that the agency failed to consider the federal Clean Air Act and the Kansas Air Quality Act when issuing the permit.
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