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Split Decision Leaves Cellphone Tower Siting Unreviewed By State Or Local Government   Intervention In Net Metering Case Approved   KRC Mourns The Death of "Mr. Chairman"   Hazardous Waste Regulations Modified To Address KRC Concerns   CAWS Appeals PSC Order Granting Kentucky-American Certificate For New Water Treatment Plant and Pipeline   KRC Director Among Those Honored By UK College of Law   KRC Director Speaks At "Energizing Kentucky" Conference   KRC Comments on Public Notice Rules For Water Quality Certifications   LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP FROM THE 2008 REGULAR SESSION   A Note of Appreciation, And Of Disappointment   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Final    Billboard Industry Attempts Last-Minute Amendments   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Thirteen – 1,030 Bills, 505 Resolutions, only 2 Legislative Days To Go!   KRC Asks Senators to Oppose Amendment Allowing Public Trees To Be Cut For Billboard Visibility   On the Passing Of A Dear And Gentle Friend   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Twelve – 1,030 Bills, 481 Resolutions, only 4 Legislative Days To Go!   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Eleven – 1,030 Bills, 437 Resolutions, only 9 Legislative Days To Go!   KRC and Citizens Coal Council Challenge OSM Rule Weakening Permit Block Sanction Against Mining Law Violators   D.C. Court of Appeals Reaffirms Rejection of Coal Industry Effort to Weaken Protections Against Strip Mining In Parks, Wilderness Areas, National Forests, And Near Homes   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Ten – 1,030 Bills, 410 Resolutions, only 14 Legislative Days To Go!   Amended HB 233 Protects Recycling Industry From Plastics Miscoding   A poem from Nana Lampton   Bill To Lift Nuclear Power Plant Construction Ban Opposed   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Nine – 1,030 Bills, 396 Resolutions, only 19 Legislative Days To Go!    "Streamsaver Bill" Gets Hearing...Finally, and A Vote   KRC Discusses Proposal to Lift Kentucky Ban On Nuclear Power Plants   Reflections On The Passing Of Two Colleagues   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Eight - 896 Bills, 351 Resolutions, only 24 Legislative Days To Go!   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Seven - 774 Bills, 309 Resolutions, Only 29 Legislative Days To Go!    KRC URGES SENATORS TO OPPOSE CUTS IN HAZARDOUS WASTE CLEAN-UP FUND   KRC Urges House Leaders To Oppose Cutting Public Trees For Billboard Visibility    Alternative Language On HB 233 Encourages Manufacturers to Design Containers With Recycling In Mind   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Six - 720 Bills, 269 Resolutions, 32 Legislative Days To Go!    KRC Urges House Committee to Reject Bill That Could Damage Plastics Recycling Efforts in Kentucky   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Five - 635 Bills, 220 Resolutions, 37 Legislative Days To Go!    2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Four - 574 Bills, 186 Resolutions, 42 Legislative Days To Go!    MSD Variance Approving Relocation of Beargrass Creek on River Metals Property Is Remanded   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Three   A Conversation With The Sierra Club At Activist Weekend   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Two, 426 Bills, 106 Resolutions And Counting   KRC Endorses Fine Particulate Task Force Report   Coal Industry Rebuffed In Effort to Weaken Protections Against Mining Near Homes, In Parks And Wilderness Areas   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week One, 355 Bills, 60 Resolutions    2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: First Edition   Burlington Coat Factory Plan Approved With Changes Sought By Bashford Manor Area Neighbors   Lynch Water Supply Reservoir Protected From Underground Mining   2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Preview Edition    LEO Explores Kyoto, Carbon and Climate Change With KRC Director   Graduation Address to Fall 2007 Neighborhood Institute Graduates   AGREED ORDER ENTERED IN CHALLENGE TO DOE WATER DISCHARGE PERMIT FOR PADUCAH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT   KRC Recommends Improvements In Meth Lab Property Cleanup Program   Conditions Added To Development Plan for Bellarmine Dorm Address Blasting, Dust, Lighting   Deletion of state air toxics regulation from Kentucky's Clean Air Act SIP opposed   Kentucky-American Water Hearing Concludes, Briefs Due December 28.   What Utilities Can Do To Advance Energy Efficiency in Kentucky   Fitz Receives Kentucky Heartwood’s Second Annual Stu Butler Memorial Award   Help In Naming New Nature Center at Raven Run after Stu Butler   Skewed Composition Of Legislative Panel on Climate Change Criticized   Environmental Justice 101   Draft Plan For Center For Renewable Energy Flawed    “Carbon Constraints and the Future of Coal”   Floodplain Variance Allowing Beargrass Creek Relocation Is Challenged   Weakening of Stream Buffer Zone Rules Opposed   LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP FROM THE 2007 REGULAR AND SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION    Class Action Settlement In ZEON Chemical Air Emissions Case Unfair, Unreasonable, Unconscionable   Upcoming KRC Events and Presentations   Appeal Filed On Cabinet Order Upholding Issuance of Permits For Confined Hog Operations In Fulton, Carlisle and Hickman Counties   KRC Appeals Nugent Sand & Gravel Mine Zoning Decision   Kentucky Post Publishes KRC Testimony on Energy Policy   STATE WITHDRAWS WEAK AIR TOXICS REGULATIONS   State Air NESHAP Regulations Amended To Address Enforceability Concern   KRC Testimony Concerning House Energy Bill   KRC Testifies Before Special Subcommittee On Energy   Shelby County Fiscal Court Acted Properly In Rejecting Rezoning Of Agricultural Land For Scrap Metal Facility   Excerpts from "Beyond Time"   Hazel King Remembered   Yet another reason for a bottle bill!   Special Session Should Be About More Than Peabody   Benson Valley Landfill Expansion Comments   South Africa’s Support for Synthetic Fuels Industry Extensive And Long-Term   "We've Run Out Of Backyards"   KRC Testimony On Senate Bill 1   Concerning Senate Bill 1   KRC Recommends Withdrawal of Proposed Air Toxics Regulation Package   Additional Testing Recommended For Coal Combustion Ash Used For Fill   KRC's Testimony Before House A&R Committee On Climate Change and Coal-To-Liquids   KRC Recommends Withdrawing State Air Toxics Reg Package And Convening Stakeholder Meetings   Proposed National Rules On Coal Ash Disposal At Coal Mines Are Subject Of Comments   Kentucky Tonight Show On Coal-To-Liquids Is Online   Grant Agreements Show There Is No Need For Special Session   Everything Old Is New Again   Evangelical Climate Initiative Calls For Carbon Cap-And-Trade System To Address Climate Change   KRC Op-ed Questions Special Session To Subsidize Coal-To-Liquid Plants   I-66 Wild Rivers Exemption Is Topic In Committee Meeting   KRC Asks Federal Highway Administration to review Kentucky DOT's efforts to exempt I-66 from Kentucky Wild Rivers law   KRC Comments on Scoping for Kentucky Biolab   KRC Requests NOx Reductions Be Made Permanent Before Lousville Ozone Redesignation Is Approved   Lynch Residents Speak Out Against Proposed Mine Beneath City Water Reservoir   KRC Opposes Coal Mining Beneath City of Lynch Water Reservoir   KRC Staff News   Winnie Hepler Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From EQC   KRC Suggests Revisions to Board of Land Appeals Procedural Rules Proposal   Citizens for Alternative Water Solutions Is Granted Full Intervention Rights In Kentucky-American Water Plant Case   The Passing Of A Friend   Mining Issues Discussed at U of L Brandeis School of Law Panel   Proposed Limestone Quarry Drainage Into Mammoth Cave Basin Opposed   KRC Director Speaks At Earth Days In The Cumberlands    KRC Comments On Proposed Rule On Coal Refuse Sites Remining   2007 SESSION FINAL UPDATE   Circuit Court Decision Assures Cell Tower Review In All Counties   KRC Opposes STAR Change That Weakens Worker Protection From Toxics Exposure   Update #7: Bills We're Tracking In The 2007 Kentucky Session   Update #6: Bills We're Tracking During the 2006 General Assembly Regular Session   CONSIDERATION OF SB 155 SHOULD BE DELAYED    Stealth Amendment to HB 89 Would Exempt I-66 From Wild Rivers Law   A Little Levity Helps On A Bad Day!   SB 155: Can't See The Forest For The ..... Billboards?    2007 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Tracking: Update #5 (Complete Through March 2, 2007)   Memo Further Explains KRC's Concern That House Bill 543 Would Impair Lessors Rights Under Gas Lease Agreements   KRC Comments on Rewrite of State Hazardous Waste Regulations   KRC Comments on Administrative Hearing Reg Revisions   KRC Opposes Abridging Public Rights In OrderTo Attract Gasification Plant   House Bill 543 Bad News For Gas Lessors   2nd Circuit Rejects EPA Cooling Water Intake Rule   2007 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Tracking: Update #4   Alternative Ratesetting Bill for Gas Utilities To Be Studied   SB 155: Destroying Public Trees For Billboard Visibility   2007 Session: Bills We're Tracking: Update #3   Revised House Bill 5 Broadens Incentives for Renewable Energy Providers   KRC Voices Concerns With Natural Gas Utility Alternative Ratesetting Bill   KRC Voices Concerns With Natural Gas Utility Alternative Ratesetting Bill   Legislative Update #2: Bills We're Tracking   Legislative Update #1: Bills We're Tracking   KRC Comments on Drinking Water Rule Changes   OSM Rules Weakening Permit Blocks For Outlaw Mining Companies Is Opposed   KRC Will Not Seek Rehearing on 6th Circuit Decision On Northern Kentucky Vehicle I/M Program   State Suspends Effort To Assume Primacy Over Section 404 Permits   KRC Argues "Business Case" for Energy Efficiency At Utilities And Energy Efficiency Conference   Reissuance of Nationwide Permit Allowing Filling Of Headwater Streams And Wetlands By Coal Mining Operations Is Opposed   Director receives award from KFTC For Service   Approval Conditions for Oil & Gas Wells on Daniel Boone Forest Redbird District Incorporate KRC Recommendations   Broader monitoring and limits sought for wastewater discharge into Lake Cumberland   Comments on Glasgow Landfill Water Discharge Permit   KRC Receives 2006 Clearing The Air Award From Lung Association   Reflections on The Life And Work of Earl Wilson   Fulton County Approves Ordinance Regulating Confined Hog Operations   KIPDA Plan To Nix Transit Projects In Metro Area Criticized   Louisville Forum Panel Discussion Focuses On Mining   Increased Public Participation Opportunities In STAR Program Supported   KRC Requests Controls On Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Processing & Transmission Facilities   Floodplain Regulation Change Questioned   Water Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Challenged   EPA Advisory Committee Recommends Tightening 8-Hour Ozone Standard   CEMEX Asked To Provide More Data On Proposed Use of Tires And Sludge For Cement Kiln Fuel   Congress' Environmental Scorecard Available   KRC Recommends Denial of Wetlands Permit For Renaissance Zone Project   6th Circuit Affirms EPA Approval of Northern Ky. Vehicle Program End   Tighter Limits On Mercury Emissions From Lamp Plant Urged   From The Department of "The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same"    Conditions Added to Pinehurst Rezoning Approval To Provide Notice, Protection To Residential Neighbors   Management System Needed To Track MSD's Air Permit Compliance Obligations   Vehicle Testing Case Argued Before 6th Circuit Court of Appeals   KRC Asks For Stricter Limits On Water Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Facility   KRC Proposes Enhancements In Public Notice And Input In Louisville's STAR Air Toxics Program   KRC and Mountain Watershed Ass'n. Oppose Pennsylvania Coal Mine Blasting Rule Changes   PSC Order In Cell Tower Case Appealed   EPA Enforcement Threatened By Closure of Technical Libraries   EPA's Water Transfer Rule Opposed   This Week's Quote   KRC Statement Responds To ATSDR Rubbertown Health Consultation   Jefferson Co. School Board Revises Siting Policy To Include Public Notice And Meeting   Issuance of Permits For Industrial-Scale Hog Feeding Operations Challenged   Irish Hill Lawsuit On Slaughtering Plant Resolved   Agreed Order Resolves KRC Challenge To Disposal of DOE Landfill Leachate   Rehearing Sought On Cell Tower Siting Case   Use of National Forest Road for Coal Haulage Opposed   Increased Ambient Monitoring Recommended In Comments On TMDL For Bayou de Chien   Meeting 8-Hour Ozone Standard Is A Step Towards Healthy Air in Louisville, But Not An Endpoint   KRC Comments On Proposed Renewal of DOE Landfill Permit   AG's Office Directs Transportation Cabinet To Release Okolona Mall Permit Application And Related Correspondence   AG's Office Directs Transportation Cabinet To Release Okolona Mall Permit Application And Related Correspondence   KRC Comments On Proposed Hazwaste Permit For Open Burn Treatment of Reactive Wastes   Development Standards for Karst, Noise, Odor, Blasting, and Floyds Fork Needed   No Profile In Courage   Courier Journal Tackles Climate Change / New Environment Blog Starts June 19   EPA's Nondiscrimination Regulations Apply to All Kentucky Permitting Actions   The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: A Summary of KRC's 2006 Legislative Activity    KRC Asks State To Reconsider Proposed Hazwaste Reg Changes   EPA Asked To Review Outsourcing Of Air Permit Reviews By Kentucky   KRC Comments On Draft Revisions to STAR Program Rules   KRC Opposes Weakening Of Recreational Use Protections In Ohio River; Urges Tighter Standards On Mixing Zones   Comments On UST Reg Revisions Oppose Leaving Off-Site Contamination In Place   Transportation Cabinet Denial Of Public Access To Permit Applications Challenged   PSC Ruling Interpreting Cell Tower Law Could Affect Many Communities   Cabinet Urged To Require Co-Permitting and Better Controls on 9 Proposed Confined Hog Feeding Operations   Creating Demand For Renewable Power   Citizen's Coal Council and KRC Challenge to EPA's Remining and Western Alkaline Mining Rules Rejected By Divided Sixth Circuit Panel   Court Upholds Rule Limiting Coal Mining Exemptions on Public Lands And Near Homes   EPA Urged To Strengthen Proposed Controls On Fine & Coarse Particulate Pollution   Stack Testing & Lower Mercury Limits Suggested For Versailles Lighting Plant   Concerns Raised Regarding Proposed Hart County Quarry    KRC Suggests Strengthening Louisville Air Toxics Program   Celebrating a faithful and dedicated public servant   A 1/2 Shoe Session: The 2006 Regular Legislative Session Wrap-Up   Installation of Water Treatment System Resolves Lone Mountain Enforcement Case   PSC APPROVES TRANSMISSION LINE THROUGH DANIEL BOONE FOREST IN ROWAN COUNTY    Broad-based Coalition Opposes Telecom Deregulation Bill   2006 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching Update #16: Complete through 4-06-06   In remembrance   Barry Bingham Jr.: Reflections On A Faithful Steward Of A Sacred Trust   Two Who Made A Difference   Sobering Thought   2006 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching - 15th Legislative Update, Complete Through March 31, 2006   DEREGULATION WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY: What The Consumer Would Lose If HB 337 Becomes Law   KRC Challenges Landfill Permit At DOE Plant In Paducah   CLEARING THE AIR ON TELEPHONE DEREGULATION    2006 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching   Anti-STAR Provision Sent to House In Lead Poisoning Bill: Inclusion May Jeopardize Seat Belt, ATV and Lead Poisoning Prevention Measures   KRC TESTIFIES IN OPPOSITION TO PHONE DEREGULATION BILL   TELEPHONE DEREGULATION BILL IS BAD NEWS FOR THE AVERAGE CONSUMER   Multi-Layer Plastic Bottle Bill Opposed   KRC URGES HOUSE TO OPPOSE PHONE DEREG BILL   12th Legislative Update: Complete Through March 10   KRC Testifies In Opposition To Pilot Project For Removing Right-of-Way Trees For Billboard Visibility   KRC Testifies Concerning Utility Surcharge Bill   KRC Voices Concerns Over Telephone Deregulation Bill   SENATE BILL 39 IS NO COMPROMISE   KRC Asks Senators To Oppose Senate Bill 39   Committee Approves Bill Aimed At Ending Louisville Air Toxics Reduction Program    KRC pauses in fond remembrance of an old friend.   Local Phone Service Dereg Bill Lacks Needed Consumer Protections On Rates And Service   KRC Supports Lead Screening Bill With Amendments   New Study Indicates Harm To Infants And Children    Bill Sponsor Appears To Lack Understanding Of Fine Particulate Pollution Problems In Metro Louisville   KRC Testifies In Opposition to Senate Bill 39   Bill To Deregulate Many Local Phone Services Opposed   SENATE BILL 39 IS BAD NEWS FOR WORKERS AND THE PUBLIC   House A&R Committee Asked To Restore UST Funds   KRC Asks House A&R Committee To Restore Funds Cut From Ky. PRIDE Fund   KRC Asks House A&R Committee To Restore Funds Cut From Ky. PRIDE Fund   KRC Comments On Wastewater Revolving Fund Rule   KRC Recommends Forestry Regulations Include Basic Competency Testing For Temporary Master Loggers   KRC Comments On Credible Evidence Rule   KRC Challenges Approval of Crushed Limestone In Landfill Liner Drainage System.   KRC OFFERS ALTERNATIVE TO “COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS” FOR ALL STATE REGULATIONS   COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS REQUIREMENT WOULD SHORT-CHANGE PUBLIC AND WORKPLACE HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY   Comments On B&B Oil & Gas Well Proposal In Daniel Boone Forest   Comments on Proposed Oldham County Sewer Capacity Ordinance   KRC Opposes Repeal Of Vehicle Testing Regulation And Asks EPA To Review Action   KRC Questions Use of Crushed Limestone As Drainage Layer In Landfill   KRC Asks Corps To Deny Permit To Fill Wetlands For Shopping Mall   Health Effects Committee of Louisville Air Quality Task Force Recommends Continuing Effort To Reduce Ozone Pollution Below Current Federal Standards   PSC Upholds Denial of Transmission Line Through National Forest   Stay Request Denied; Vehicle Testing in Northern Kentucky To End November 3   KRC Asks 6th Circuit Court of Appeals To Stay End of Northern Kentucky I/M Program   Petition Filed Seeking Court of Appeals Review of EPA Decision Approving Closure of Northern Kentucky Vehicle Emissions Testing Program   EPA ASKED TO STAY EFFECTIVE DATE OF CLOSING VEHICLE TESTING IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY PENDING JUDICIAL REVIEW   Supplemental Comments On Integrator Liability   KRC Comments On Proposed Hog Farm Permits   Hearing Regulation for Storage Tank Claims Finalized   What Do We Really Value? An Exploration Of Our Environmental Ethic   Model Confined Hog Feeding Operation Ordinance   COMPREHENSIVE OIL AND GAS REGULATIONS LONG OVERDUE   KRC Comments On Kramers Lane Groundwater Study   Some Things YOU Can Do To Support Healthy Food and Kentucky Farms   Power Company Seeks Rehearing On Power Line Through National Forest   KRC Comments on Regulation of Animal Feeding Operations   KRC Testifies On Mining Impacts Before Environmental Quality Commission   PSC Rejects Transmission Line Corridor Through Daniel Boone Forest   KRC Proposes Comprehensive Plan For Investigating Radiological Contamination In Martha Oil Field   KRC comments on new leachate treatment facility proposed by DOE   Streamlined “no permit” model ordinance developed for regulating concentrated swine feeding operations   KRC Comments On Pending “No Discharge” Permits for Swine Waste Handling Systems   Public Involvement Procedures Recommended for New Public School Facilities   Model Confined Swine Feeding Permit Developed   Model Confined Swine Feeding Ordinance Developed   Appeal of Mall Rezoning Denied   Appeal of Mall Rezoning Denied   KRC urges adoption of STAR air toxics program by Metro Air Pollution Control Board   COMPLAINT IS FILED CHALLENGING WEAKENED CONTROLS ON SWINE FEEDING OPERATIONS IN FULTON COUNTY   KRC Asks Legislative Committee To Support Ban On Backyard Burning Of Household Garbage   KRC COMMENTS ON STRATEGIC ENERGY BLUEPRINT   Fulton County Officials Issue Permit For Confined Hog Operation, Ignoring Public Comment and Applying Unlawfully Adopted Regulations   KRC Opposes Weakening Local Ordinances On Confined Hog Feeding Operations   KRC on "Electricity and Environmental Politics"   Remining and Western Alkaline Mine Rehearing Argued Before En Banc 6th Circuit Panel   KRC Requests More Public Review of MSD Plans To End Combined Sewer Overflows; Urges Caution Concerning Reuse of Lees Lane Superfund Site   KRC Director speaks on “Valuing Natural Resources" at EKU's “Earth Days In The Cumberlands”   KRC Supplements Comments Opposing Plan To End Vehicle Testing In Northern Kentucky   KRC Opposes Approval Of Revisions To Ozone Pollution Plan In Northern Kentucky   HOPKINS SEWAGE SLUDGE ORDINANCE IS ADOPTED   Environmental Quality Commission Director Cole To Retire    Coalbed Methane Regulations Are Finalized; State Retains Baseline   State Urged To Publicize Availability Of UST Fund Before Deadline Passes   KRC Expresses Grave Concerns with Environmental Cabinet Outsourcing of Air Pollution Permit Review   KRC ASKS ORSANCO TO TIGHTEN CONTROLS ON DISCHARGES INTO OHIO RIVER FROM CSOS, AND TO LIMIT VARIANCE AND MIXING ZONE AVAILABILITY   KRC Questions Exemptions And Waivers From Air Emissions Testing   PUBLIC NOTICE AND BETTER CONTROLS ON ALLOCATION OF WATER RESOURCES NEEDED   Fill PSC Vacancy With Public Interest Candidate   KRC Opposes Mining Rule Change Weakening Scrutiny Over Changes In Control of Mine Companies   EPA approves Kentucky Antidegradation Standard, Groups Sue To Void Rule      KRC URGES EPA TO SET LIMITS ON COAL ASH DISPOSAL IN MINES   REVISED HOPKINS SEWAGE SLUDGE ORDINANCE HAS FIRST READING   HOPKINS CO. GIVES FIRST READING TO SEWAGE SLUDGE ORDINANCE   “THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY” : REGULAR SESSION WRAP-UP   SLUDGE PROPOSAL IN NORTONVILLE RAISES CONCERNS      BILLS WE’RE WATCHING: LEGISLATIVE UPDATE #8   HB 8 AMENDMENTS TO EXCLUDE CITIES UNWORKABLE   SENATE TACKS ON PUNITIVE ZONING APPEAL BOND BILL TO HB 50   Raw Power Politics At Its Ugliest: HB 8 To Be Heard Monday   Senate Amendments Don't Fix House Bill 8   BILLS WE’RE WATCHING: LEGISLATIVE UPDATE #7   CABINET OPPOSES ACCOUNTABILITY UNDER 404 PROGRAM:   BILLS WE'RE WATCHING: LEGISLATIVE UPDATE #6   Opening Brief Filed In Nugent Zoning Appeal   Reply Brief Filed In Okolona Mall Case   KRC Urges House Members To Oppose HB 8   KRC Comments On Proposed Louisville Air Toxics Regulations   KRC Comments On 404 Permit For Maverick Steel   KRC Opposes Revision To Metro Louisville Ozone Plan: Asks EPA To Disapprove   Federal Circuit Rejects Takings Claim In Stearns Case   KRC OPPOSES RELAXATION OF OPEN BURNING RESTRICTIONS: Cabinet should restrict open burning, not encourage it.   KRC Responds To EPA Petition for Rehearing In Mining Case   Courier Journal recognizes KRC's 20 years of advocacy   2005 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching   KRC Comments On Revised Proposal To End Northern Kentucky Vehicle Emissions Testing   KRC Requests Audit Of Jefferson County Erosion Control Ordinance   APPROVAL OF ESTILL COUNTY POWER PLANT CHALLENGED   Twenty-Years of Advocacy   KRC/Fitz Herald Leader Writeup by Andy Mead   6th Circuit Invalidates EPA Rules Relaxing Mine Pollution Standards   EPA sued for failure to finalize rule to protect Kentucky's waters from degradation   Post-Hearing Brief Filed In Estill County Power Plant Case   KRC Opposes Permit To Dam War Fork In Jackson County   KRC Fundraising Dinner   NEWPORT STEEL REDUCTIONS CANNOT BE USED TO OFFSET VEHICLE PROGRAM LOSS   PSC TRANSMISSION LINE SITING PROCESS NEEDS STANDARDS   KRC Comments On Proposed Air Quality Reg Changes   KRC Comments On Proposal To End Northern Kentucky Vehicle Emissions Testing   Changes Made to Proposed Solid Waste Regs In Response To KRC Comments   Governor Restores Reclamation Bond Pool Funds; Averts Threatened KRC Suit   JUDGE REJECTS MOTION TO DISMISS SUIT CHALLENGING AGREED ORDER BETWEEN DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND STATE CABINET ON PADUCAH PLANT   KRC SERVES NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUE TO FORCE REIMBURSEMENT OF MINING BOND POOL FUND   Air Pollution District Ordered To Pay $130,000 In Fines And Attorney Fees For Illegal Shutdown of Vehicle Testing Program   Landowner Succeeds In Obtaining Groundwater Protections In Pooling Order   KRC Comments On Proposal To End Vehicle Testing In Northern Kentucky   Non-coal regs need strengthening to protect public & environment    KRC Comments On Proposed Solid Waste Reg Changes   KRC Comments Result In State Changes To Landfill Permit   Report Is Critical of Wal-Mart Wage and Anti-Union Policies   Kentucky withdraws haul road exemption from OSM    KRC OPPOSES DISPOSAL OF MORE WASTES AT DOE LANDFILL UNTIL SEISMIC HAZARD FURTHER INVESTIGATED   The Good, the Bad and Ugly   Final Update On 2004 General Assembly Action   KRC Files Amicus Brief in Stearns Takings Case   Citizens Coal Council and KRC Oppose Weakening of Stream Buffer Zone Rules    PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE TO CALL OR FAX TO RESTORE FIVE BUDGET CUTS    Citizens Coal Council and KRC Oppose Weakening of Permit Block Rules   Legislative Update #11: 2004 Regular Session - Bills We're Watching   CUTS TO UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK AND OIL AND GAS WELL PLUGGING FUNDS THREATEN GROUNDWATER & ECONOMIC PROGRESS   Legislative Update #10: 2004 Regular Session - Bills We're Watching    Multiple Message Billboards   Alert #2: Please Call To Stop Billboard Bill   Legislative Update #9: 2004 Regular Session - Bills We're Watching   KRC POSTS LEGISLATIVE UPDATE #8   Billboard Bill Would Allow "Tri-Vision" Multiple Message Ad Signs On Highways   Permit Denied for Limestone Quarry Near Buck Creek   2004 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE #7   State Revises Power Plant Ash Landfill Permit To Address KRC Concerns   COALBED METHANE BILL TO BE AMENDED TO ADD SAFEGUARDS   INTENT TO SUE SERVED ON EPA FOR ITS' FAILURE TO COMPLETE RULE PROTECTING KENTUCKY'S HIGH QUALITY STREAMS   KRC Analyzes Coalbed Methane Bill   2004 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE #6   Gathering Line Regulation Status   2004 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE #5   KRC Testifies On Environment Budget   2004 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE #4    KRC CRITICAL OF OSM RULE CHANGE WEAKENING STATE OVERSIGHT   Legislative Update #3 2004    VET Decision Available On-line   Oral Arguments Heard In Remining / Western Mine Case    Court Agrees With KRC That VET Program Was Unlawfully Ended; Grants Permanent Injunction Requiring Restart of VET Program   KRC Opposes bill cutting off rights of injured to sue for lead poisoning   Legislative Update #2 2004   KRC OPPOSES GRANTING VARIANCE FOR ENERGY DEPARTMENT WASTE   KRC Opposes Elimination of Northern Kentucky I/M Program   Legislative Update #1 2004   HONORING PAUL VAN BOOVEN   BRIEFING COMPLETE IN VEHICLE TESTING CASE   FAX Example 2- Send this fax, For Example...   FAX Example: A demonstration of the technique.   Opening Brief Filed In Joint Tenancy - Strip Mining Case    KRC Comments On Proposed Remediation Standards    REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS WITH DISPOSAL OF COAL COMBUSTION WASTES (CCW) AT MINES   OSM Urged To Reject Haul Road Exemption From Coal Mining Laws   KRC re: New Secretary of NREPC   Erosion Control Workshop   APPEAL FILED IN SOLID WASTE & COAL POWER PLANT CASE   Kentucky Nature Preserves Award & Remarks   KRC Director Receives 2003 Nature Preserves Commission Biological Diversity Protection Award   KRC Expresses Concerns Regarding Sewer Regulation Changes   KRC Comments on Open Burning Regulation Revision   KRC Comments On Oil and Gas Gathering Line Regulations   KRC COMMENTS ON REVISIONS TO SOLID WASTE STANDARDS   BRIEFING COMPLETE IN THOROUGHBRED SITING CHALLENGE   Updated Posting: Vehicle Emissions Testing Suit Filed   KRC speaks on the "State of Kentucky's Environment" at Scenic Kentucky gathering   Kentucky Pioneer Power Plant Case Submitted   Assorted Press Clippings Regarding the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Uranium Enrichment Plant   Courier-Journal: Agency sued over cleanup at nuclear plant   KRC challenges agreed order between Natural Resources Cabinet and DOE   LWD Ordered to Close   KRC Opposes Removing Required Amendment To Kentucky Mining Regulations   KRC Requests That Governor Withdraw Mining Road Exemption   STATE PROPOSES TO EXCLUDE ALL PUBLIC ROADS USED AND DAMAGED FROM COAL HAULAGE FROM MINING REGULATION   CABINET MAKES CHANGES TO WASTE-TO-ENERGY PLANT   KRC WELCOMES DECISION BY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PRESIDENT TO FOREGO MINING THE MAIN BLOCK OF THE ROBINSON FOREST   KRC DISCUSSES ABANDONED MINE LAND PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION   KRC comments on Thoroughbred Coal Ash Landfill   Courier-Journal Coverage of KRC VET NOI   State makes changes to air permit recommended by KRC.   KRC serves Notice of Intent To Sue Kentucky, EPA Over End To Vehicle Testing Program In Jefferson County, Kentucky.   Herald-Leader OpEd: Power to pollute   Herald-Leader OpEd's: Trapp & Global Energy   Walters Intervention Granted - Second Kentucky Pioneer Siting Hearing Held   08/03/02: KRC Participates in Panel Discussion On Adoption of Countywide Zoning in Barren County   08/01/03: Opening Brief Filed In Kentucky Pioneer Power Plant Waste Case    BGDailynews.com: Barren residents question land uses   07/28/03: John McCutcheon, Where were you when?   07/28/03: KRC Requests OSM To Set Aside State Law Provisions Stripping Protections From New Pine Mountain Trail State Park   07/22/03: KRC Supports State Proposal To Deny Hazwaste Permit To LWD Incinerator   KRC E-Mail Policy: No Attachments from KRC   August 14, 2003: DBNF Comments   August 14, 2003: Whitely County Stone   August 8, 2003: Non-Coal Testimony   August 7, 2003 Regulation Committee Rejects Non-Coal Reg. Reforms    08/05/03: Your help needed today & tomorrow   Quecreek Mine Report Calls For Mine Mapping Reforms   Lexington Herald Leader OpEd: Real river cleanup must begin in state legislature    MSHA INTERNAL INVESTIGATION SHORT ON ACTION   OSM AGREES WITH KRC, DISAPPROVES MINING PROGRAM AMENDMENT   Ashland Independent: Cleaning up the River   State makes changes to air permit recommended by KRC.   Cadmium mimics effects of estrogen   Chao-Norton Letter   KRC Comments on Gathering Line Regulations   ORSANCO Comments   KRC comments on proposed Daniel Boone Forest Renewal of Mining Permit   OSM Proposes to Weaken Stream Protections   Update on KRC Litigation    Conditional Use Request Withdrawn   Herald Leader: Factory-Farms Want a 2 Year Break   Herald Editorial on Robinson Forest   UK Considers Mining Robinson Forest   LMAPCD: Save on a new lawnmower with our buyback program.   SITING BOARD DENIES PERMIT FOR CLARK COUNTY PLANT   ADOPT EMERGENCY REGULATIONS ON SITING GATHERING LINES   REMOVAL OF FUNDS FROM BOND POOL REQUIRES MINING PROGRAM AMENDMENT   Reflections On Receiving Recognition From the League of Women Voters   2003 Appalachian Studies Association Conference   2003 Legislative Wrap-up   EQC Funding Still in Doubt   Governor Vetoes EQC Funding   KRC COMMENTS ON OZONE REDUCTION PLAN FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY   Ask the Governor to Veto HB 524   Conservationists in Central Kentucky Needed   Eisenhower's Farewell Address: " We want democracy to survive for all generations"   The Fate of HB 458   The 7th legislative update.   A Bleak Session   HB 458 Fate Uncertain   2003 Legislative Update #6   Few Profiles in Courage    HB458 Advances: Please Call Now   Oil & Gas Bill Update   The Latest on The Oil & Gas Bill   Action Alert: Oil & Gas Bill Needs Your Calls   2003 Legislative Update #5   Killing The Messenger   Showing Courage: Call & Thank Them   Keep Up the Good Work   Comment Today on Non-Coal Regulation Revisions   5 Minutes Can Make A Difference-Call Now!   HB 458 Tramples Local Government   Hearing Officer Rules in Trapp Case.   Serving the People - to the Oil & Gas Industry   2003 Legislative Update #4   Your Help Needed to Stop HB 458   House Bill 473 Protecting Local Control Over Waste Importation    PUBLIC HEARING RESCHEDULED FOR PROPOSED CLARK COUNTY PLANT   KRC Budget Testimony   Action Alert #2 (again): Your Help Needed to Stop HB458. Call or Fax Now!    Senate restores ability of Governor to adopt emergency regulations.   Airport Seeks Immunity From Liability   Alert #3: HJR 140 Would Stop Mine Monitoring of Oil & Grease.   Action Alert #2: Oil & Gas Interests Served At Public's Expense    Update #3: 2003 REGULAR SESSION   Budget Cuts Threaten Environmental Progress   Cabinet Supports Revocation of Nugent Permit   Action Alert #1: Two Items Needing Attention   Legislative Update: New And Notable This Week   Legislative Update #2 (2003)   GALLATIN COUNTY RESIDENTS PREVAIL IN PERMIT CHALLENGE   2003 Legislative Alert #1   Briefing on Kentucky Pioneer Power Plant   Herald Leader Editorial: Weakening of clean air rules particularly bad for state.   Lexington Herald-Leader weighs in: Dec. 22, 2002 EDITORIAL Trapp plant power struggle   Trash Fueled Trapp Merchant Power Plant Article: Courier-Journal   State Decision Challenged   Citizens Coal Council and KRC Challenge EPA Rule Relaxing Sediment Controls On Mining    KRC Comments On Coalbed Methane Study   KRC Comments On OSM Acid Mine Drainage Proposal    Reflecting on the Life of Jim Bickford   Regarding Reform Of Non-Coal Mining Regulations   Jefferson County Land Development Zoning Regulations   TOM FITZGERALD RECEIVES THE HENRY R. HEYBURN PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD   Where to take those old computers and monitors.   REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF PROFESSOR PAUL OBERST   Energy and the Environment: The Picture   Constitutional Amendment #1: we support it.   Nugent Case Underscores Weakness In State Regulation of Non-Coal Mining   Energy and the Environment: a speech.   THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE NOT-SO-SCENIC TRAIL   Kentucky Mountain Power Appeal   KRC files brief Opposing Bonds for Transpark   Cabinet Secretary Vacates Mining Permit Decision   New Zoning Regulations for Jefferson County   Public hearing on request to terminate protections   Re: Proposed Regulations Implementing Voluntary Environmental Remediation   David Hawpe (C-J): Environmental advocate gets results, but too little financial support.   Environmental Concerns With Mining   The Stink Over Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations   Hearing Officer Recommends Mining Permit Decision Be Reversed   Revisions to the Land Development Code for Louisville and Jefferson County   The EQC Lifetime Achievement Award   Comment on Thoroughbred's Request for Special Waste Designation   Re: Proposed Reissuance KY0054810, Martin County Coal Corporation   Re: notice of deficiency filed by Enviropower LLC   AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW POWER PLANT SITING LAW   Re: Proposed General Permit Reissuance, KPDES Permit No. KYG040000   AN OPEN LETTER TO THE JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS   KFTC/ KRC CITIZEN COMPLAINT SPURS FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT ACTION   A letter relating to Sunny Ridge Mining Company   KRC's testimony Before the Jefferson County Planning Commission   The final legislative activities report   Opening Brief Filed In Case Challenging Issuance of Mine Permits   Attend the legislative hearing on partial public funding of gubernatorial races   TOM FITZGERALD REMARKS: THE EQC LIFETIME OF SERVICE AWARD   Legislative Update: A "Two Shoe Session"    Bowling Green Erosion and Sediment Control Workshop is May 7   Two items for your information   Governor signed House Bill 618 to terminate the Jefferson County Vehicle Emissions Testing Program   Legislative update. Click here for full text.   Thanks! Corporation Constitutional Amendment Modified!   Legislative Alert: only five legislative days remaining.   Effort by coal interests to gut permit blocking.   HB 618 would eliminate the Louisville VET program in 2003   REDEFINITION OF "FILL" MATERIAL   Re: Proposed Revisions to the Clean Water Act Regulatory Definitions of "Fill Material" and "Discharge of Fill Material"   POWER PLANT SITING BILL STRENGTHENED AND PASSED BY SENATE   Twelve Days Will Decide Legacy of 2002 Session   LATEST ALERT: Talking Trash & In a Good Way!   Winchester Sun Covers SB 287 Impact on Trapp   Action Alert: ISSUES NEEDING YOUR HELP   Discussion in the Public Forum: UNMINED MINERALS TAX REVENUE THREATENED & ATV/ORVs   SEVEN STEPS TO A CLEANER ENVIRONMENT   2002 REGULAR SESSION: 1,169 bills, 415 resolutions, and 18 legislative days to go.   HB 174 IS WHAT WE NEED TO CLEANUP KENTUCKY    HB 174 : A CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE   SENATE BILL 257 AN IMPROVED SITING BILL: FURTHER WORK NEEDED   2002 REGULAR SESSION: 1,086 bills, 358 resolutions, and 23 legislative days to go.   Thoroughbred Energy Coal-Fired Plant   NRDC Comments on the Thoroughbred Energy Coal-fired Electric Generating Unit   A list of actions needed to make HB 540 worth passing   HB174 Postcard Campaign   EPA's Effort To Clean Up Dirtiest Power Plants At Risk   Holes in the Fields of Dreams: Transpark Karst Collapse   Support a Strong Power Plant Siting Bill   HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE NEEDS TO RETURN POLLUTERS' VALENTINE TO SENDER!    "Transpark" Update   2002 REGULAR SESSION: 979 bills, 291 resolutions, and 28 legislative days to go.   KRC Testimony Before House Budget Review Subcommittee   Come to Frankfort Tomorrow (Feb 20th)   Legislative Update: 2002 REGULAR SESSION: 894 bills, 244 resolutions, and 32 legislative days to go.   HB 540 is in the House Rules Committee   House Bill 496   Action Needed on HB 540, the Power Plant Siting Bill   2002 REGULAR SESSION: 816 bills, 208 resolutions, and 37 legislative days to go.   THREE BILLS NEED YOUR ATTENTION NOW   Transpark Appeal Update   Legislative Update: 42 Legislative Days to Go.   House Bill 540 falls short   THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORT   LEGISLATIVE ALERT: A GREAT WAY TO START TUESDAY MORNING!   Re: Power Plant Moratorium   2002 REGULAR SESSION: 640 bills and counting . . . .   Re: Problems With 1-16-02 Merchant Plant Bill   2002 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching   MERCHANT POWER PLANT MORATORIUM EXTENDED, SCOPE OF ORDER UNCLEAR   2002 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching   Re: Regulation Lawsuit Victory   PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE MARTIN COUNTY COAL WASTE SPILL   Request for Determination Regarding Applicability Of KRS 224.40.   Transpark Appeal Update   KRC Inquires About Frontier's Mining Bond Coverage    KRC Does Not Support Constitutional Amendment #2   A Proposal for Siting Review of Merchant Plants   THE FAILURE OF MSHA'S MANAGEMENT   Re: Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permit Reissuance   Re: Warren County "Transpark" Bond Appeal Update    Re: Right of Mining Companies To Condemn Land For Mineral Haulage   Use of Condemnation Powers By Mine Operators   Transpark: Appeals & Exceptions   Re: Baylor Landrum III   Re: Fiscal Court Votes Without Objection To Weaken Erosion Ordinance   GOVERNOR ISSUES MORATORIUM   Re: Proposal for Siting Procedures And Criteria For Merchant Plants   MAPLE PROPOSES SIGNIFICANT EROSION OF PROTECTIONS   Concerning Weakening Amendments to Erosion Prevention and Sediment Control Ordinance   The Coal Industry: Talking The High Road, Taking The Low Road   Remining- Part 1   Remining -Part 2   Re: Reopened Comment Period for Ky. Regulatory Program   KRC has a new office address   KRC Submission to the Smart Growth Task Force   Lawmakers back limit on pollution: Courier-Journal   Regarding the Final EIS for the Jackson County Lake Project    KRC serves notice opposing coal slurry pond near Kentucky River   Health threats from plutonium and uranium:Reuters and USA Today   Questioning the Stone Mountain Experimental Practice   Proposal for power plant challenged over bond issue: Herald-Leader   Paducah uranium-plant workers can learn about benefits: Courier-Journal   Transpark Appeal   Kentucky Citizen Groups Notify EPA of Intent to Sue to Protect Kentucky's Waterways   Kentucky, Ohio Uranium Isolation Facilities Top List of Ozone Layer Polluters :Courier-Journal Report   Notice of Intent To Sue Pursuant To Clean Water Act Section 505 and 5 U.S.C. Sections 701-706   Re: Decision On Pine Mountain Petition   NAS Impoundment Study   Environmentalist spurns coal panel. By Bill Estep Lexington HERALD-LEADER    Nuclear Half-Life   Tribute to Janie Douglass   A Note of Clarification Concerning KRC's Position Paper On Amendment #2   Regarding the NAS Coal Waste Impoundment Study   GOVERNOR ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER CREATING "CLEAN COUNTIES" PROGRAM   Supplemental Comments Regarding Composition of NAS Slurry Committee   2001 Session: Final Wrap-Up   NAS Waste Impoundment Study   Study On Preventing Coal Waste Impoundment Failures and Breakthroughs   2001 REGULAR SESSION: 2 VETO DAYS LEFT; "IT AIN'T OVER TIL IT'S OVER!"   AN OVERVIEW OF SB2: THE VOLUNTARY ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION ACT   KRC Letter Opposing Amendment to House Bill 321    Oppose Amendment to Permit End Run Around Local Control & Solid Waste Planning   "Voluntary Remediation" Bill Agreement   Legislative Update March 8, 2001   Legislative Update: (3/7/2001)   Call & Support HR 133: Pine Mountain Settlement School   HB 305 Need a Push   Alert March 3, 2001   Pass HB 104   Support Low-income Utility Bill   Supreme Court Decision On Clean Air Act   Alert, Febuary 24, 2001   Oppose SB48   HELP NEEDED TO STOP ANTI-VEHICLE EMISSIONS TESTING BILLS   February 21 Alert   Clarification of "brownfields" legislation msg   Alert Feb 17   Agreement Reached On "Brownfields" Proposal    Call Now to Support HBs 183 & 9   Support HB 183-Comprehensive Cleanup Bill   Alert Feb 10, 2001   Oppose Senate Bill 48   OPPOSE SENATE BILL 2   Electric Utility Deregulation 1997 & 2001   Coal Law Pjct Annual Report   Martin Cy Slurry    Ky Mtn Power Draft Air Q Permit   KRC: The First Ten Years   KRC's Annual Report 1999-2000   Pine Mtn Settlement School Petition   Alert: Jan 12

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