Subject: Kansas Department of Health and Environment

• The Other Prophylactic

  April 25, 2007

• The New Polluters: Joggers

  December 8, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Shadowy Anti-Fun Directorate; Clay Chastain in the Matrix; Phill Kline in Your Uterus

  April 3, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Kiss my shuttlecock!

  In a Kansas City Star editorial yesterday, Yael T. Abouhalkah posited the existence of a "good" Mayor Mark Funkhouser and a "bad" Mayor Mark Funkhouser: "The good Funkhouser is the one Kansas Citians thought they were electing in 2007, the one who was going to attack the city's financial ills," writes Abouhalkah. He never explicitly defines the "bad" Funkhouser, but he's the one who spends a lot of time on national television bitching about his wife's ejection from City Hall and suing the City

  December 4, 2008

• Kory goes public as Oz faces increased opposition

  April 6, 2000

• Best Lawyer

  October 19, 2000

• BPU meets with EPA about alleged clean air violations (updated)

  Nearman Creek Power StationLast week, attorneys from the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Public Utilities and Environmental Protection Agency met to discuss the notice of violations the EPA sent in November to the BPU. The notice basically said the long-troubled utility company could face millions of dollars in fines for violating federal clean air standards. Chris Whitley, a spokesman for EPA Region 7, told me about the meeting between attorneys lasted three to four hours. He said it was an initi

  February 11, 2009

• Unplanned Unemployment

  June 29, 2006

• A Good Inspection

  November 30, 2006

• Power Switch

  May 21, 2009

• Her Dirty Secret

  Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius preaches green, but her heart seems as black as coal.

  August 9, 2007

• Sparks Fly

  September 29, 2005

• Damage Control

  Great Plains Energy has spent years quietly working on plans for dirty new power plants. Now facing opposition, it's sounding more eco-friendly.

  July 8, 2004

• Dead in Bed

  Wrongful-death lawsuits plague a nursing-home company.

  September 11, 2003

• Born Again

  When Bryan J. Brown gave up his picket sign for a law degree, that just made him a stronger activist- and perfect candidate for a job in Kansas state government.

  May 15, 2003

• A Nasty Rumor

  The African-American AIDS Project gets stripped of its funds.

  April 24, 2003

• Toxic Crock

  After barrels of hazardous waste piled up in the west bottoms, John Dillon took the fallout.

  October 3, 2002

• The Whizzers Of Oz

  The Kansas ag industry dumps all over efforts to clean up the state's water.

  August 9, 2001

• Dishonorable Discharge

  With an outdated permit, Johnson County’s sewage plant pollutes Wyandotte County.

  May 3, 2001

• Overland Office Park

  Even though Terra Venture botched one development, Overland Park lets it build another.

  November 30, 2000

• Up the Creek

  Lawrence and Farmland fight to pollute the Kaw.

  November 23, 2000

• Pig Out

  Merriam's Seaboard Corporation thought it could really bring home the bacon -- if it could just find a place to process its hogs.

  September 7, 2000

• Telling on trash

  Steve Chasteen drove a bulldozer at the Kansas City, Kan., Forest View Recycling and Disposal Facility. When he saw raw medical waste coming to the landfill and saw how wastewater was handled at the facility, he brought it to management's attention. Inste

  May 25, 2000

• Promises of a really big show

  Following the yellow brick road can be a bummer; The longer it gets, the harder it is to distinguish fantasy from reality.

  February 10, 2000

• Parkinson's Dirty Deal, Part 1

  Governor Mark ParkinsonWhen Gov. Mark Parkinson capitulated to Sunflower Electric Power Corporation and gave his stamp of approval to a monstrous coal-fired power plant in Western Kansas, he sucker-punched his predecessor Kathleen Sebelius, who had mustered the political courage to oppose the pollution-spewing facilities for a solid two years. The new governor also gave the finger to thousands of Kansans who put exceptional pressure on their elected officials to hold the line against the dirty

  May 14, 2009

• Thought the Kansas coal battle was over?

  Think again. Yes, Governor Mark Parkinson signed a backroom agreement with Sunflower Electric Power Corporation to build a gigantic new coal-fired power plant in western Kansas, but environmentalists aren't giving up yet. Last week, the Kansas Sierra Club and EarthJustice sent a strongly worded letter to Rod Bremby, Kansas' Secretary of Health and Environment. Bremby is the one who has to sign off on Sunflower's air permit and the Sierra Club doesn't want him to simply rubbe

  June 30, 2009