Coal plants

Environmentalists taking on utilities

Proposed power plants in Kansas and Missouri have become targets of environmentalists who are fighting to halt a new wave of coal-fired units.

Utilities have plans to build more than 130 power plants throughout the country, and at least eight of those are in Kansas and western Missouri, with two in the immediate Kansas City area.

It has been decades since so many coal-fired power plants were proposed. In Kansas, a coal plant hasn