"Lawsuit claims emissions from KCP&L coal plant caused incurable disease", 25 Apr 2018

A lawsuit filed on Monday claims that emissions from a Kansas City Power & Light coal-fired electric power plant in La Cygne caused a woman to be sickened with an incurable illness...[T]he woman describes how she grew up...about four miles downstream from the power plant and currently home to around 1,100 residents.  The lawsuit goes on to detail how emissions from the plant and other issues...allegedly led to water and soil becoming toxic.  The attorneys claim that after the groundwater allegedly became contaminated, the woman and her family drank, bathed in and used water taken from a well downstream from the plant and drilled into an aquifer that contained harmful materials.  The lawsuit describes how the woman underwent medical testing...The testing showed toxic levels of heavy metals, including uranium and lead, inside her body.  The woman also alleges that her exposure to the heavy metals led her to suffer “severe and permanent injuries”...The lawsuit alleges that the doctor believed the woman developed the incurable autoimmune disease in response to environmental toxicity and her exposure to heavy metals...