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Kentucky Agriculture Gets Stimulus Boost

October 29, 2009 – 12:59 pm

Gov. Steve Beshear announced yesterday $850,000 in socialist Federal funding to help Kentucky’s farmers become more energy efficient. Coordinated by the Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy, the funding marks a substantial step toward greening-up the Commonwealth’s rural economies; so says the press release:
The energy stimulus incentive program will provide 25 percent reimbursement of the actual cost of a [...]

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Fossil Fuels’ Hidden Costs: $6 Million Per Life

October 20, 2009 – 12:49 pm

A number-filled report released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that our current fossil fuel-based transportation economy isn’t as cheap as we think it to be — yet it’s just as crude. (Ha!)
According to The New York Times‘ summary of this report, the United States loses approximately $120 billion every year due to [...]

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Wetter, Hotter American Summer

August 28, 2009 – 10:57 am

A new report released by The Nature Conservancy predicts that over the next 100 years, Kentucky’s average temperature is expected to rise 8.8 degrees, precipitation will increase by as much as 4.3 feet of rain per year, and we’re all going to DIE. This is all because of green house gases, by the way, which [...]

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Mayoral ‘Go-Green’ Scheme Gets National Attention

July 27, 2009 – 4:55 pm

And maybe an award, too: The National League of Cities and CH2M, an enviro-engineering firm, have announced that the Go-Green Louisville initiative is a finalist for a 2009 Award for Municipal Excellence, which is given to a municipality that best demonstrates its efforts to improve in some way the quality of life for its citizens.
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KY Green Economy Leaves Wallet, Returns to Party Briefly

July 14, 2009 – 5:05 pm

Every day now, it seems, more money is being given to Kentuckians for the purposes of, uh, making us less dumb and not as poor. So it should come as no surprise, then, that the Red House has awarded nearly $4.1 million in Energy Star-rated appliance rebates. In theory, this means that if you’ve finally [...]

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White House Touts Energy Efficiency Initiatives

July 10, 2009 – 3:51 pm

Although the following examples will be labeled by conservatives as a series of rapes further perpetrated upon the corpse of Ronald Reagan the American Taxpayer, Premier Obama’s dastardly gang of tree-hugging Trotskyites have taken to highlighting the results of their tiny stimulus bill — most likely in an effort to show Sean Hannity he knows [...]

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KY Green Economy Says “Hi,” Leaves Party Early

July 9, 2009 – 4:52 pm

According to a new report released by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies, 8,750 new jobs and $1.7 billion dollars in economic activity can be generated in central and eastern Kentucky via those sustainable “green-economy” alternative-energy jobs Your President is always babbling about. However, the Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) holds dominion over this 87-county [...]

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Citizen Lawson (or, Why More Roads Equals Less)

May 27, 2009 – 10:05 pm

When he was 18, Leonard Lawson worked on a highway project  — his first of many — as an entry-level maintenance worker. It was good, honest work for a boy hailing from Beverly, Kentucky, a hamlet located near the Commonwealth’s poverty-stricken Eastern coal fields; perched on the southwestern cusp of the Cumberland Plateau just east [...]

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Local Environmental Reporting Gets Green Light

April 20, 2009 – 7:17 pm

Louisville Public Media has received a grant of $40,000 to “build a consortium of public radio stations throughout the region interested in producing environmental news and features and sharing them with others stations” in conjunction with LPM’s Ohio River Radio Project.
Since Kentucky is a veritable ground-zero in the fight against Big Coal, we’re uniquely poised [...]

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Local School Goes Green

March 4, 2009 – 6:52 pm

When you consume as much news as I do (I watch enough to have developed a romantic complex for MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow… believe me, I know), it can be hard to separate the nourishing wheat from the inane chaff. Not to wax poetic or anything, but if one possesses a certain disenchanted or cynical eye, [...]

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