Kansas may soon raise the bar for closing coal plants with new legislation that environmentalists say will favor one type of energy over another.
The bill, backed by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, sets out a new set of requirements that state utility regulators must consider when deciding whether to close a coal plant.
The legislation sets a new legal standard of rebuttable presumption against the retirement of fossil fuel-fired electric generating units, meaning that it would have to be demonstrated that the plant should be closed.
Eric Stafford, vice president of government affairs for the Kansas chamber, said . . .
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