Allison Kite
Data ReporterAllison Kite is a data reporter for The Missouri Independent and Kansas Reflector, with a focus on the environment and agriculture.
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Spire's rate increase would come to about 12.7% for western Missouri customers, or about $11 a month. But state regulators and consumer advocates are skeptical the energy company needs to increase rates by so much.
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The project is meant to prove that large transfers of water could be a tool to help save the disappearing Ogallala Aquifer, which provides irrigation and drinking water to western Kansas. But other groundwater management officials say it’s a distraction from the far more urgent task of conservation.
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Kansas and Missouri — along with most of the U.S. — are plagued with a stubborn drought that the state’s two governors have declared to be an emergency. Most of southern Kansas is in extreme or exceptional drought.
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Grain Belt Express’ developer announced its transmission line will now deliver 2,500 megawatts of clean energy to Missouri, up from 500. But that increase requires an extra 40-mile connector line, which Grain Belt asked state regulators to approve as an amendment to its original plan, instead of a new line that would be governed by higher land price for farmers.
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The Democratic lawmaker visited the Olathe home of Jerry Land, whose lead service line was recently replaced by the city.
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NexGen Mining Inc. plans to mine silica sand in Ste. Genevieve County despite blowback from residents concerned about how the mine might affect native wildlife or residents who get their drinking water from wells.
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Kunce's campaign revolves around his message that for too long, the interests of corporations and billionaires — not working people — have steered policy in the U.S. In a state that has been trending toward Republicans for a generation, the former Marine Corps member thinks he'll resonate with voters who have left the Democratic Party.
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Abortion is legal but highly regulated in Kansas. If August's constitutional amendment passes, anti-abortion advocates and Republican lawmakers appear ready to ban it statewide.
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Salvo en caso de crisis, nunca se ha exigido a las compañías de agua que hagan un inventario exhaustivo de las tuberías con plomo. Los expertos en salud advierten que los problemas con estas "bombillas venenosas subterráneas" pueden surgir de la nada.
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Water utilities have never been required to thoroughly inventory lead pipes except in a crisis. Health experts warn problems with these “underground poisonous straws” can arise out of the blue.