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LG&E, KU to switch to natural gas? Not if the Kentucky Coal Association can help it.

April 25, 2011 – 9:08 am

According to an article in The Courier-Journal, the answer is “don’t hold your breath.” Three Kentucky coal-fired plants operated by the PPL-owned utilities are slated to convert to natural gas within five years, including LG&E’s Cane Run Road plant, which currently spews over 4.5 million pounds of climate-change-causing, human life-imparing chemicals into the atmosphere annually. [...]

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Clean air rally to protest LG&E emissions

March 14, 2011 – 3:57 pm

Despite Louisville Gas & Electric’s ongoing PR campaign to greenwash itself into an environmentally conscious entity, the people who are forced to live next door to the power monopoly’s mercury-coughing Cane Run Road coal-fired power plant (and accompanying toxic coal ash pond) aren’t convinced. So this Thursday, they’re partnering with the Sierra Club to rally [...]

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In defense of Kentucky mountains

February 21, 2011 – 9:12 am

A few days after hundreds of protestors marched on the state capitol and camped out at Gov. Steve Beshear’s capitol office in a demonstration against mountaintop removal, members of Congress passed a spending bill that significantly weakens the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate the mining practice. The legislation cuts $61 billion from the federal [...]

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Frankfort sit-in continues for fourth day

February 14, 2011 – 10:46 am

The Kentucky Rising protesters are still at it today (aka I ♥ Mountains Day), having remained in Gov. Steve Beshear’s office over the weekend after bum rushing him on Friday in an effort to end mountaintop removal mining in Kentucky. From a press release: FRANKFORT – Fourteen protesters, including internationally-known writer Wendell Berry, remain in [...]

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UPDATED: Anti-MTR Kentuckians stage Frankfort sit-in, force meeting with Gov. Beshear despite possibility of arrest

February 11, 2011 – 10:37 am

What will Gov. Steve Beshear do? Sick the KSP on Wendell Berry? UPDATE: Although he’s not pulling a Mubarak, Gov. Steve Beshear has dropped his oh-so-busy schedule to meet with Kentucky Rising protesters who want him to end mountaintop removal mining in Kentucky. “We can surface mine in a responsible way,” the governor told the [...]

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The EPA wants you (to comment on coal waste impoundments)!

November 19, 2010 – 1:28 pm

Today is the last day for public comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed coal ash regulations, which will have an impact on communities as far away as Hazard, Kentucky and as close as the Rubbertown neighborhood of this fair (and polluted) River City. If you haven’t already, click here to give your two cents [...]

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Proposed eastern Kentucky coal-fired power plant cancelled

November 18, 2010 – 3:02 pm

Remember the Smith 1 power plant? The Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative’s proposed coal-fired power plant that would’ve been pretty dumb to build? Well, turns out that they’ve decided not to build the damn thing after all. Via Kentuckians for the Commonwealth: EKPC has entered into an agreement with Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Kentucky Environmental Foundation, [...]

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Massey slapped with massive lawsuit over poisoned drinking water

November 16, 2010 – 4:45 pm

Corporate coal shoggoth Massey Energy — which likes suing harmless tree-people — is being named a defendant in a mass lawsuit that seeks to bring the company to task over the poisoning of drinking water in several West Virginia communities. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Eighteen months ago, Christina Doyle packed up her two kids for an [...]

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