Evergy moving away from coal, but health advocates say too slowly
By Allison Kite
Missouri Independent
Evergy, an electric supplier to about 600,000 customers in western Missouri, says it will retire its coal power plant in Lawrence, Kansas, by the end of 2023.
The utility, which serves Eastern Jackson County outside Independence, revealed its plan to regulators in a filing with the Missouri Public Service Commission. The “integrated resource plan” lays out Evergy’s next few years in capital expenses and pledges to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045.
To that end, the company says it will retire “nearly all” of its remaining coal generation by 2040.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) - A Missouri appeals court has allowed a woman to sue Kansas City Power & Light over claims she was exposed to toxic levels of heavy metals during a brief visit to her mother, exposing the utility to liability for emissions from a coal-burning power plant that spread across two states.
The court rejected plaintiff Lona Leann Grosshart’s claims KCP&L was liable for failing to inform her about pollution from the plant, however, and agreed that a 10-year statute of repose barred claims based on her childhood on a farm near the plant in Kansas.