Topic: Kansas

Phosphorous: Yes, Another Thing That's Running Out

SeekingAlpha - 649 days ago
Not to be entirely glib, because the issues around phosphorous (and oil, and everything else we're running out of) are serious, but let's no longer put " But I digress. So, time to worry more about phosphorous: From Kansas to China's Sichuan ...

Westar Settles EPA Lawsuit

Forbes - 741 days ago
Westar Energy will devote $500 million to cut air pollution from one of its Kansas plants as part of a settlement of a Clean Air Act violation lawsuit. Through the settlement, Westar will install pollution control equipment at all three units of ...

Stricter new smog limit would hit rural areas, too

AP News - 759 days ago
EPA proposes stricter smog limits, putting hundreds more areas of the US in possible violationHundreds of communities far from congested highways and belching smokestacks could soon join big cities and industrial corridors in violation of stricter limits on lung-damaging smog proposed Thursday ...
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Thinking solar power? It's never been cheaper

Forbes - 838 days ago
Westar Energy will devote $500 million to cut air pollution from one of its Kansas plants as part of a settlement of a Clean Air Act violation lawsuit. Through the settlement, Westar will install pollution control equipment at all three units of ...

How to Live Green Philosophy

eHow - 1015 days ago
My parents grew up in the depression, one on a farm in Kansas, and one a military brat in Europe. They design products to fail. many companies have figured out that they couldn't make as much money if you only bought one ...

U.S. Law Catches Up With Westar

Forbes - 1095 days ago
The U.S. government sued Kansas utility Westar Energy onThursday, alleging that the company modified one of its coal-fired power plants without putting in pollution control equipment.. In a complaint filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, ...

Museum Features 'Green' Kansas Community

LiveScience - 1197 days ago
"They are really making a wonderful opportunity out of an absolute tragedy," curator and architect Susan Piedmont-Palladino said of Greensburg. "Masdar and Greensburg do make a really good pair because they're both looking at the whole package of green technologies - from ...

Museum features Kansas town that went green

AP Features - 1197 days ago
Building Museum features tornado-torn Kansas town that's become model for green constructionTiny Greensburg, Kan. , rebuilding from scratch after nearly being wiped away by a tornado last year, is quickly becoming a model for going green.Along with Masdar City, a planned car-free ...
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