Brian Grimmett
News ReporterBrian Grimmett is a two-time Regional Edward R. Murrow award-winning journalist covering energy and environment stories across the state of Kansas. Brian loves to dive deep into complicated issues with the hope of making them easier to understand for general audiences, as with the award-winning hard news feature Westar Wants Kansans To Pay For Peak Power. What Could It Mean For Your Energy Bill?
Brian comes to KMUW and the Kansas News Service from KUER 90.1 FM in Salt Lake City, where he started as an intern and left as a full-time reporter covering the Utah state legislature.
Brian earned his bachelor’s degree in communications from Brigham Young University. When not reporting, he enjoys spending time with his family and building/flying remote control planes and drones.
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State regulators deny an advocacy group's request to subpoena a firm that helped set natural gas prices that went up more than 2,000% during February's deep freeze.
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Rising cropland values could both hurt and help Kansas farmers as general inflation already adds uncertainty to 2022.
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Algae blooms are increasingly fouling Kansas lakes. The blooms can make the water cities take from those lakes taste and smell bad and force them to spend more money on chemicals to make it taste better.
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Rural Kansans stand to save a lot of money by switching to an electric car or truck. But availability, policy and infrastructure roadblocks could get in the way.
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The sisters at Heartland Farm mark just one of several religious communities in Kansas turning their attention to a modern crisis — climate change. Motivated by their religious beliefs, they make a faith-based case for environmentalism.
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MANHATTAN, Kansas — Climate change conjures notions of rising water levels along the coasts, severe drought in the Intermountain West and the record…
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Hackers pose a growing threat to nearly any network, including the power grid that lets you reliably turn on the lights.Experts say utilities offer an…
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PRATT, Kansas — This summer marks the third year that Kansans have grown hemp for industrial uses.Yet growing the less sexy cousin of the plant associated…
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In a typical February, the small Wabaunsee school district just west of Topeka pays a natural gas utility bill of about $4,300. This year, its bill was…
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SALINA, Kansas — Ebony Murell and a few interns meticulously sort 99 kinds of silphium. It’s a wild relative to a sunflower. And the biologists at The…