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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The Trump administration remains unlikely to back off its plans to ease Obama-era restrictions that make it harder for utility companies to burn… -
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday is hosting a listening session in Kansas City on the Trump administration’s proposal to scrap the… -
Executives pushing the merger of the two largest utility companies in Kansas have told regulators they’ll give in on some customer bill protection and job… -
The Kansas Water Office has received more than $2.5 million from the federal government to help fight harmful algae blooms in the state's largest lake.… -
Zack Pistora, legislative director of the Kansas Sierra Club, was worried about the number of earthquakes in the state and wanted to do something about… -
If you’ve got solar panels on your roof, Westar Energy wants to create a surcharge on your power bill.The utility insists that if it doesn’t charge you… -
Jeff Colyer rose to the top of the Kansas executive branch Wednesday with events staged not just around his swearing in as governor, but in concert with… -
A merger of Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy deserves approval, regulatory staff say in a new report, if the two utilities sweeten the deal with more… -
A proposed merger between two of Kansas’ biggest electric utilities drew little criticism, or praise, during a public hearing Monday night in… -
Westar Energy and Kansas City Power & Light say all the money coming from recently passed federal corporate tax cuts will land in their customers’…
