WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve revisions to the Kansas State Implementation Plan (SIP) and Operating Permits Program, as well as the 112(l) plan submitted by the state on February 20, 2023. The revisions aim to update the Class I emission fee and emissions inventory regulations, establish a Class II fee schedule, and ensure the state's Operating Permits Program is sufficiently funded. These changes do not affect air quality  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, Jan. 14 -- The Kansas Corporation Commission announced the following dockets on Jan. 13, 2025: * * * 25-BLVT-274-TAR Docket Type: TAR - Tariff Docket Description: Blue Valley Telecommunications Tariff Date Filed: 01/13/2025 * * * 25-ELKT-273-TAR Docket Type: TAR - Tariff Docket Description: Tariff for Elkhart Telephone Company Date Filed: 01/13/2025 * * * Original text here: https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/portal/kscc/page/NewDockets/portal.aspx  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, Jan. 15 -- The Kansas Corporation Commission announced the following dockets on Jan. 14, 2025: * * * 25-TRAM-276-OOS Docket Type: OOS - Out of Service Docket Description: In the Matter of the Suspension of Operating Authority of C&G Underground LLC Date Filed: 01/14/2025 * * * 25-TRAM-275-OOS Docket Type: OOS - Out of Service Docket Description: In the Matter of the Suspension of Operating Authority of Sharan Transport Inc Date Filed: 01/14/2025 * * * 25-TRAM-5045-TRA  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Jan. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release: A Kansas City, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in two separate and unrelated cases for drug trafficking and illegally possessing firearms. A Kansas City, Kansas, man is also charged in one of those cases with illegally possessing a firearm. Daroy L. Thomas, 25, of Kansas City, Mo., was charged in a four-count indictment returned under seal  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today introduced the Sporting Firearms Access Act to stop the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) from arbitrarily blocking imports of firearms and ammunition.  The Sporting Firearms Access Act clarifies the definition of "sporting purposes" used by the ATF to regulate import of firearms into the U.S. The new definition would recognize firearms and ammun  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D., John Cornyn (R-TX), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), along with 39 of their Senate GOP colleagues, introduced the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to exercise those rights in any other state that allows concealed carry, while still abiding by tha  more