Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says his office has filed a legal brief asking the Kansas Supreme Court to uphold the construction permit issued for expansion of the Sunflower Electric power plant in Holcomb.

Schmidt’s office is defending the State ofKansasand its Department of Health and Environment against a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club asking the Court to reject the permit.

The permit was issued in December 2010 by KDHE Acting Secretary John Mitchell after KDHE staff found that Sunflower had met the permitting requirements.