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Thoroughbred Energy Coal-Fired Plant

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KRC Statement Opposing Conditional Use Permit For Biodigester

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Model Confined Swine Feeding Ordinance Developed

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KRC Opposes Removing Required Amendment To Kentucky Mining Regulations

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STATE WITHDRAWS WEAK AIR TOXICS REGULATIONS

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Re: Decision On Pine Mountain Petition

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Committee Approves Bill Aimed At Ending Louisville Air Toxics Reduction Program

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Lexington Herald-Leader weighs in: Dec. 22, 2002 EDITORIAL Trapp plant power struggle

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The Latest on The Oil & Gas Bill

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Cadmium mimics effects of estrogen

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2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: 4th Edition

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KRC OFFERS ALTERNATIVE TO ?COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS FOR ALL STATE REGULATIONS

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SLUDGE PROPOSAL IN NORTONVILLE RAISES CONCERNS

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Senate Bill 3: 2015 Version of AT&Ts Deregulation Bill Fails To Assure Continued Access To Reliable Basic Phone Service For All Kentuckians

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Revisions to the Land Development Code for Louisville and Jefferson County

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Jefferson Co. School Board Revises Siting Policy To Include Public Notice And Meeting

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Re: Reopened Comment Period for Ky. Regulatory Program

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Final FY 2011Mine Regulation Performance Agreement Between Office of Surface Mining and Kentucky Incorporates Several Recommendations From KRC

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Greenhouse Gas Regulations and their Effect on Local Communities and the Poor

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KRC Remembers Jeet Gill

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KRC Comments On Coal General Discharge Permits

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Remembering Alex Talbott

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Regarding the Final EIS for the Jackson County Lake Project

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Approval Conditions for Oil & Gas Wells on Daniel Boone Forest Redbird District Incorporate KRC Recommendations

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Reflection on the passing of David Short

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Earth Day In The Cumberlands 2009

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KRC Responds To Obama Administration Proposed Mining Reforms

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KRC Asks House A&R Committee To Restore Funds Cut From Ky. PRIDE Fund

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"Mindful Living" Is Topic At Inaugural Sustainability Lecture Series at UK

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Evangelical Climate Initiative Calls For Carbon Cap-And-Trade System To Address Climate Change

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Sobering Thought

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TVA Ash Release Underscores Need For Comprehensive Federal Regulatory Framework For Management of Coal Combustion Wastes

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REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS WITH DISPOSAL OF COAL COMBUSTION WASTES (CCW) AT MINES

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6th Circuit Invalidates EPA Rules Relaxing Mine Pollution Standards

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KRC Comments On Scoping For Stream Protection Rule

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KRC Recommends Denial of Wetlands Permit For Renaissance Zone Project

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Division of Water Proposes Last Minute Changes In Selenium Water Quality Limits

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HOPKINS CO. GIVES FIRST READING TO SEWAGE SLUDGE ORDINANCE

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Energy and the Environment: a speech.

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?Kentucky at the Crossroads: Adapting To A Carbon-Constrained World

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Agreement Reached On "Brownfields" Proposal

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2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Fifth Edition

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KRC Opposes Bill Excusing Nuclear Industry From Responsibility For Disposal of High-Level Rad Wastes

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KRC has a new office address

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Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission

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Joint Letter Requests Postponement Of Sandhill Crane Hunt Approval

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Holes in the Fields of Dreams: Transpark Karst Collapse

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Alert, Febuary 24, 2001

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Additional Testing Recommended For Coal Combustion Ash Used For Fill

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Re: Proposed Regulations Implementing Voluntary Environmental Remediation

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DuPont Accepts Court Modification of Settlement In Rubbertown Emissions Case

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KRC Participates in Panel Discussion On Adoption of Countywide Zoning in Barren County

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KRC Op-ed Questions Special Session To Subsidize Coal-To-Liquid Plants

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2007 SESSION FINAL UPDATE

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Rohm & Haas Withdraws From Settlement; DuPont Accepts Modified Agreement

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Director receives award from KFTC For Service

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Opening Brief In Case Challenging Constitutionality of Cell Tower Secrecy Statute Is Filed

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KRC submits written testimony on regional wastewater commission bill

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Citizens for Alternative Water Solutions Is Granted Full Intervention Rights In Kentucky-American Water Plant Case

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Remembering Two Who Made A Difference

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KRC Testimony On Senate Bill 1

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Lynch Water Supply Reservoir Protected From Underground Mining

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Looking Back On KRC's Work In 2015

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KRC Testifies On Environment Budget

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Intervention In Net Metering Case Approved

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Lawmakers back limit on pollution: Courier-Journal

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EPA ASKED TO STAY EFFECTIVE DATE OF CLOSING VEHICLE TESTING IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY PENDING JUDICIAL REVIEW

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Re: notice of deficiency filed by Enviropower LLC

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The Challenges Ahead

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Metro Parks / Trinity Plan For Tennis Courts Shelved

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Two items for your information

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2007 Session: Bills We're Tracking: Update #3

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KRC Expresses Support For Removing Position of For-Profit Water Provider From Kentucky Infrastructure Board

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KRC Comments On OSM Acid Mine Drainage Proposal

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Supreme Court Decision On Clean Air Act

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Files being restored now.

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Remembering Mike Mullins

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2005 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching

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KRC Comments On Proposed Remediation Standards

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Groups petition U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. for review of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order Approving ?Abandonment and Repurposing of Tennessee Gas Pipeline

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Water Permitting Regulation Changes Reflect KRC Comments

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Updated Posting: Vehicle Emissions Testing Suit Filed

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REACT and KRC Comment On Request To Relax Air Toxics Standard

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KRC Comments on Solvent Replacement At Rubbertown Plant

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KRC Statement On H.R. 493

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KRC Applauds Decision By Governor Beshear to Withdraw Proposed Rule Allowing Electronic Multi-message Billboards

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KRC Comments on Public Notice Rules For Water Quality Certifications

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Martin Cy Slurry

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Clean Coal........Isn't!

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Net Metering Guidelines Are Posted On PSC Website

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KRC Director Presents Sustainability Lecture At Centre College

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EPA's Nondiscrimination Regulations Apply to All Kentucky Permitting Actions

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The 2011 General Assembly: Bills and Resolutions We're Watching: Seventh Edition

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KRC Appeals Nugent Sand & Gravel Mine Zoning Decision

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KRC Comments on Proposed Changes to Heritage Land Conservation Board Regulations

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Some Background On Proposed Bluegrass Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline

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KRC Supplements Comments Opposing Plan To End Vehicle Testing In Northern Kentucky

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Heinz Award Video and Acceptance Speech Online

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KRC Urges Regulation Subcommittee To Reject State Selenium Water Quality Standard Revision For Lack Of Compliance With Federal Public Participation Requirements

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Support HB 183-Comprehensive Cleanup Bill

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2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: Seventh Edition!

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KRC Budget Testimony

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2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Eight - 896 Bills, 351 Resolutions, only 24 Legislative Days To Go!

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KRC Asks Senators to Oppose Amendment Allowing Public Trees To Be Cut For Billboard Visibility

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A letter relating to Sunny Ridge Mining Company

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2003 Legislative Update #5

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House Bill 386 Updates Oil and Gas Laws And Extends Protections For Landowners

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2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: 5th Edition

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KRC Director Questions "Clean Coal" On State Of Affairs

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2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Second Edition

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South Africa?s Support for Synthetic Fuels Industry Extensive And Long-Term

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Grant Agreements Show There Is No Need For Special Session

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Change to water regulation cures conflict regarding when appeal period runs for challenges to permit decisions.

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KRC Letter to House Economic Development Committee Members Concerning SB 99 Misinformation

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Notice Served Of Intention To Sue Over Policy Allowing Permits Without Proof of Legal Right To Enter And Mine

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A Bleak Session

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Herald Leader OpEd: Fletcher's clean coal technology a bust in Clark

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Coal Industry Rebuffed In Effort to Weaken Protections Against Mining Near Homes, In Parks And Wilderness Areas

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2002 REGULAR SESSION: 1,086 bills, 358 resolutions, and 23 legislative days to go.

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Eisenhower's Farewell Address: " We want democracy to survive for all generations"

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Re: Problems With 1-16-02 Merchant Plant Bill

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Re: Proposed General Permit Reissuance, KPDES Permit No. KYG040000

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Coal Ash Is The Topic At CDC Science Seminar

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Shelby County Fiscal Court Acted Properly In Rejecting Rezoning Of Agricultural Land For Scrap Metal Facility

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KRC Testifies on Coal Reclamation Bond Inadequacy

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KRC Voices Concerns With Natural Gas Utility Alternative Ratesetting Bill

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Congress' Environmental Scorecard Available

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Local Phone Service Dereg Bill Lacks Needed Consumer Protections On Rates And Service

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A poem from Nana Lampton

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APPROVAL OF ESTILL COUNTY POWER PLANT CHALLENGED

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KRC Voices Concerns Over Changes In Air Toxics Rules; Board Defers Approval

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Council Comments On Changes To Air Quality Regulations

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25Th Anniversary of the Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission

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2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Final Edition

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Effort by coal interests to gut permit blocking.

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Senate Economic Development Committee to Hear SB 88 - AT&Ts Effort to End Right To Basic Local Phone Service, On Monday February 11

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"Voluntary Remediation" Bill Agreement

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2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: Second Edition

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Legislative Update #1 2004

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KRC URGES SENATORS TO OPPOSE CUTS IN HAZARDOUS WASTE CLEAN-UP FUND

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Proposed Settlement in LG&E Rate Case Protects Low-and-Fixed Income Ratepayers; Encourages Energy Efficiency

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2010 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We?re Watching: The Eleventh Edition

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KRC Participates In Panel Discussion on the future of coal In Kentucky

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Oil & Gas Bill Update

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A Reminder About KRC's Email Policies

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Public Involvement Procedures Recommended for New Public School Facilities

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Coal Law Pjct Annual Report

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KRC's Analysis of House Bill 221

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Use of Condemnation Powers By Mine Operators

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KRC Supports State Proposal To Deny Hazwaste Permit To LWD Incinerator

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NEWPORT STEEL REDUCTIONS CANNOT BE USED TO OFFSET VEHICLE PROGRAM LOSS

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SETTLEMENT IN LG&E RATE CASE PROTECTS VULNERABLE RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS, MODERATES THE AMOUNT AND IMPACT OF RATE INCREASES

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SENATE BILL 39 IS NO COMPROMISE

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Public hearing on request to terminate protections

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I-66 Wild Rivers Exemption Is Topic In Committee Meeting

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KRC Testimony on House Bill 1

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As Others See KRC 2015

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Senate Amendments Don't Fix House Bill 8

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KRC Comments On Draft Billboard Regulation Revisions

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2011 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The Fourth Edition

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The Solar Industry in Kentucky: A Brief Review

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On the Passing Of A Dear And Gentle Friend

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PUBLIC NOTICE AND BETTER CONTROLS ON ALLOCATION OF WATER RESOURCES NEEDED

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KRC Comments on Gathering Line Regulations

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Proposed Limestone Quarry Drainage Into Mammoth Cave Basin Opposed

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Legislative Update #13 - Complete Through March 17

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Kentucky Sports Safety Work Group Recommends Plan For Addressing Sports Activity On Air Quality Alert Days

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2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: Fifth Edition!

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Citizens Challenge 2005 Boyd County Fiscal Court Allowance of 42.9 Million Tons of Waste For Big Run Landfill

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Marion County Adopts Resolution Opposing Bluegrass NGL Pipeline

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2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: Third Edition

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2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: Tenth Edition!

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Honoring Hugh Archer

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Development Standards for Karst, Noise, Odor, Blasting, and Floyds Fork Needed

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Council Expresses Concerns With Proposed Renewal of Air Permit to Organometallix Carrollton Facility

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2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We?re Watching: The Thirteenth Edition!

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KRC Comments on Permit For East Kentucky Power John Sherman Cooper Coal Combustion Waste Landfill

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KRC Endorses Fine Particulate Task Force Report

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Oppose Amendment to Permit End Run Around Local Control & Solid Waste Planning

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2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We?re Watching: The Eighth Edition

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Report Is Critical of Wal-Mart Wage and Anti-Union Policies

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Bowling Green Erosion and Sediment Control Workshop is May 7

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KRC Opposes HB 332, Which Could Delay Implementation Of Regulations Protecting Human Health And The Environment

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Kentucky's "Report Card" For The Availability of Net Metering Improves From a D to a B In One Year Due to SB 83

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Revised House Bill 5 Broadens Incentives for Renewable Energy Providers

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2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We?re Watching: The Prefiled Edition

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KRC Comments on Open Burning Regulation Revision

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KRC Comments on OSMRE Oversight Improvement Initiative

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"Balancing Energy And Environment" was the topic at Governor's Environment Conference last October

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Showing Courage: Call & Thank Them

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2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Seven - 774 Bills, 309 Resolutions, Only 29 Legislative Days To Go!

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KRC Comments On EPA Proposal to Delegate Authority For Oil and Gas-Related Injection Well Regulation to Kentucky

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Another Event of Interest: Cleaning Up Diesel

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PSC Approves PPL Acquisition of LG&E and KU; Settlement Offers Additional Help for Low- and Fixed-Income Ratepayers

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Electing Public Service Commissioners Is Opposed By KRC Because It Wouldn't Result Lower Rates, Or Benefit Average Ratepayers

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KET Climate Change Bill Program Now Online

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Complaint Seeks PSC Review of Cell Tower Siting

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2009 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching 6th Edition

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Impact of Federal Climate Legislation On Agriculture

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KRC Asks Federal Highway Administration to review Kentucky DOT's efforts to exempt I-66 from Kentucky Wild Rivers law

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TENORM REGULATIONS TIGHTEN RULES ON MANAGEMENT OF OIL AND GAS-RELATED TECHNOLOGICALLY-ENHANCED NATURALLY-OCCURRING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

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KRC Comments On Proposed Air Quality Reg Changes

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2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: 5th Edition!

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Air Pollution District Ordered To Pay $130,000 In Fines And Attorney Fees For Illegal Shutdown of Vehicle Testing Program

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Opening Brief Filed In Challenge To City's After-The-Fact Condemnation Of Land Where A Private Sewer Line Was Illegally Installed

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Deletion of state air toxics regulation from Kentucky's Clean Air Act SIP opposed

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Basic stand-alone phone service could be at risk for over 11,000 Kentucky households if SB 99 passes.

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Reply Brief Filed In Okolona Mall Case

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Increased Public Participation Opportunities In STAR Program Supported

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Fitz Receives Kentucky Heartwood?s Second Annual Stu Butler Memorial Award

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07/28/03: KRC Requests OSM To Set Aside State Law Provisions Stripping Protections From New Pine Mountain Trail State Park

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2004 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE #5

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?A Conversation With Our Childrens Children

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Tighter Limits On Mercury Emissions From Lamp Plant Urged

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AARP Granted Full Intervention In Columbia Gas Alternative Rate Design Case

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OSM AGREES WITH KRC, DISAPPROVES MINING PROGRAM AMENDMENT

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2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We?re Watching: The Tenth Edition

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HB458 Advances: Please Call Now

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Citizens Coal Council and KRC Oppose Weakening of Stream Buffer Zone Rules

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Environmental Quality Commission Director Cole To Retire

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2006 Session: Update #4, through 1/13/06

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Opening Brief Filed In Kentucky Pioneer Power Plant Waste Case

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Valuing Kentucky's Natural Resources

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Land Use, the Land Ethic, and the 50-Year Farm Bill

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Transpark: Appeals & Exceptions

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Council Voices Opposition To SB 135, A Bill Allowing AT&T, Windstream and Cincinnati Bell to end their role as telephone "provider of last resort" for basic phone service.

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VET Decision Available On-line

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EPA's Effort To Clean Up Dirtiest Power Plants At Risk

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House Bill 246 Would Disrupt Solid Waste Planning In Louisville Metro

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Planning, Zoning and Hazardous Liquids Pipelines

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Broad-based Coalition Opposes Telecom Deregulation Bill

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Electric Utility Deregulation 1997 & 2001

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Steve Hohmann Wins National AML Award

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2003 Appalachian Studies Association Conference

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Chao-Norton Letter

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Reflections On The Passing Of Two Colleagues

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SEVEN STEPS TO A CLEANER ENVIRONMENT

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Acting Region IV EPA Administrator Asked To Reject Kentucky's Change To Selenium Water Quality Standards Due To Lack Of State Agency Compliance With Public Participation Requirements

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Stealth Amendment to HB 89 Would Exempt I-66 From Wild Rivers Law

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JUDGE REJECTS MOTION TO DISMISS SUIT CHALLENGING AGREED ORDER BETWEEN DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND STATE CABINET ON PADUCAH PLANT

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Division of Water Modifies Regulation For Review of Semipublic Water Treatment Systems To Require Engineering Report For Any Engineered System

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EPA Urged To Strengthen Proposed Controls On Fine & Coarse Particulate Pollution

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Bill Sponsor Appears To Lack Understanding Of Fine Particulate Pollution Problems In Metro Louisville

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SENATE BILL 257 AN IMPROVED SITING BILL: FURTHER WORK NEEDED

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KRC urges adoption of STAR air toxics program by Metro Air Pollution Control Board

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Senate Passes Bill That Would Open Door To Nuclear Power Plant Construction In Kentucky

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PSC Finalizes Revisions To Utility Regulations; Adopts Some of KRC's Comments

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KRC/Fitz Herald Leader Writeup by Andy Mead

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Courier-Journal: Agency sued over cleanup at nuclear plant

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2011 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The Third Edition

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State makes changes to air permit recommended by KRC.

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House Bill 473 Protecting Local Control Over Waste Importation

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LATEST ALERT: Talking Trash & In a Good Way!

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KRC OPPOSES GRANTING VARIANCE FOR ENERGY DEPARTMENT WASTE

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A Look Back at KRC's Work During 2012

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Re: Regulation Lawsuit Victory

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Courier Journal recognizes KRC's 20 years of advocacy

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KRC Testifies On Bluegrass NGL Pipeline

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KRC Comments On Oil and Gas Gathering Line Regulations

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2011 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The Sixth Edition

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KRC URGES HOUSE TO OPPOSE PHONE DEREG BILL

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2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: Sixth Edition!

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2011 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The Final Edition

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KRC Supports Lead Screening Bill With Amendments

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2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: Fourth Edition

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Reduction In Nonattainment Area for 1-Hour SO2 Standard In Jefferson County Questioned

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Council Comments On Proposed Changes to Wastewater Planning Requirements for Regional Planning Agencies

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2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We?re Watching: The Eighth Edition

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Re: Proposed Reissuance KY0054810, Martin County Coal Corporation

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LMAPCD: Save on a new lawnmower with our buyback program.

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EPA Would Likely Assume Direct Permitting Of GHG Emissions Under HJR 49

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Eminent Domain Explored

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"Fill Placement Optimization Process" Document Will Significantly Reduce the Number and Size of Steep Slope Coal Mine Valley Fills

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2009 Regular Session - Bills We're Watching: The Final Edition

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No Profile In Courage

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Statement of KRC Director Tom FitzGerald On Proposed Stream Protection Rule

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Action Needed on HB 540, the Power Plant Siting Bill

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Opening Brief Filed In Kentucky-American Water Appeal

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2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We?re Watching: The Eighth Edition

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Benefit Concert for Kentucky Resources Council

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PSC Issues Report to General Assembly on Natural Gas Retail Competition Programs

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KRC Comments On Proposal To End Northern Kentucky Vehicle Emissions Testing

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KRC Opposes Proposal To Hunt Sandhill Cranes in Kentucky

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KRC Questions Lower Standards For Review of Semipublic Water Treatment Systems

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2009 Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Third Edition

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Discussion in the Public Forum: UNMINED MINERALS TAX REVENUE THREATENED & ATV/ORVs

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THE 2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN REGULAR SESSION: Bills We?re Watching: The Fifth Edition!

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KRC Requests Moratorium On Development Of New Trails And Access to State Natural Lands

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KRC comments on Thoroughbred Coal Ash Landfill

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Imagine America in Lexington Saturday

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Supreme Court Review Of Zoning Decision Sought

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KRC Seeks Assurances Of Community Facility Reviews For Proposed MSD and Louisville Water Co. Facilities

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Kentucky withdraws haul road exemption from OSM

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KRC Opposes Senate Amendment Lifting Ban On New Nuclear Power Plants In Kentucky

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Oppose SB48

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2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We?re Watching: The Tenth Edition

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KRC Testifies On Mining Impacts Before Environmental Quality Commission

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Council testifies in opposition to proposed merger of Office of Surface Mining and Bureau of Land Management

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Burlington Coat Factory Plan Approved With Changes Sought By Bashford Manor Area Neighbors

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2001 REGULAR SESSION: 2 VETO DAYS LEFT; "IT AIN'T OVER TIL IT'S OVER!"

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Update #7: Bills We're Tracking In The 2007 Kentucky Session

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KRC Urges House Leaders To Oppose Cutting Public Trees For Billboard Visibility

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Jun,01 2018

The EQC Lifetime Achievement Award

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KRC Comments On Proposed Brownfields Regulations

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THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORT

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Odds and Ends

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KRC Director Receives 14th Heinz Award In Environment Category

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KRC Comments on Regulation of Animal Feeding Operations

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Jun,01 2018

Energy and the Environment: The Picture

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KRC Comments On Draft Revisions to Louisville's Air Toxics Program

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"Streamsaver Bill" Gets Hearing...Finally, and A Vote

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KRC Communicates Concerns With Phone Deregulation Bill Draft To AT&T

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2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: The Third Edition

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August 7, 2003 Regulation Committee Rejects Non-Coal Reg. Reforms

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Watt's In a Name?

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DuPont And Rohm & Haas Settlements Conditionally Denied

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Environmentalist spurns coal panel. By Bill Estep Lexington HERALD-LEADER

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Environmental Concerns With Mining

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A Proposal for Siting Review of Merchant Plants

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Senate Bill 3 / House Bill 152: 2015 Version of AT&Ts Deregulation Bill Fails To Assure Continued Access To Reliable Basic Phone Service For All Kentuckians

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Petition Filed To Designate Water Sources for Benham and Lynch Kentucky As Unsuitable For Surface Coal Mining

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MSHA INTERNAL INVESTIGATION SHORT ON ACTION

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Study On Preventing Coal Waste Impoundment Failures and Breakthroughs

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Comments On UST Reg Revisions Oppose Leaving Off-Site Contamination In Place

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Statement Opposing Energy & Environment Cabinet Utility Coal Waste Rules

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Support Low-income Utility Bill

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SENATE BILL 88: LETTING AT&T ?OFF THE HOOK FOR BASIC, STAND-ALONE RELIABLE HOME PHONE SERVICE

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2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: The Eighth Edition!

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Jack and Angene Wilson Named Outstanding Wooster Alums For 2011!

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LWD Ordered to Close

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State Agrees With Most of KRC's Comments On Proposed State Surface Mining Regulation Changes

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?THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY : REGULAR SESSION WRAP-UP

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KRC Urges House Members To Oppose HB 8

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A Cautionary Note On Adventure Tourism

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Fill PSC Vacancy With Public Interest Candidate

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Remining -Part 2

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KRC CRITICAL OF OSM RULE CHANGE WEAKENING STATE OVERSIGHT

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Speaker Stumbo Expresses Opposition to AT&T Phone Deregulation Bill

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Floodplain Regulation Change Questioned

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TELEPHONE DEREGULATION BILL IS BAD NEWS FOR THE AVERAGE CONSUMER

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KRC Encourages You To Support Project Warm

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Mining Issues Discussed at U of L Brandeis School of Law Panel

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The Stink Over Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

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Jefferson County Land Development Zoning Regulations

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Bill To End Moratorium on New Nuclear Power Plant Construction Moves To Senate Floor

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KRC Urges Federal Energy Regulatory Commission To Conduct Full Environmental Impact Statement On Bluegrass Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline

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AT&T Bills Would Impede, Not Expand, High Speed Rural Broadband Access

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KRC Speech On The Occasion Of The 35th Anniversary Of The Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission

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Updated Analysis Of Why AT&T Bill Is Bad News For Kentucky's Basic Phone Service Users

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HB 174 : A CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

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Constitutional Concerns With Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Bill

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Fulbright Scholar Reflects Back On Year In China

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Community Shopping Night Benefit for KRC

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2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: Eleventh Edition!

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Kentucky Post Publishes KRC Testimony on Energy Policy

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2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: First Edition

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KRC - As Others See Us

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KRC COMMENTS ON REVISIONS TO SOLID WASTE STANDARDS

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CABINET MAKES CHANGES TO WASTE-TO-ENERGY PLANT

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KRC Opposes Elimination of Northern Kentucky I/M Program

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Irish Hill Lawsuit On Slaughtering Plant Resolved

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2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Nine ? 1,030 Bills, 396 Resolutions, only 19 Legislative Days To Go!

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Remembering Patty Wallace

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6th Circuit Affirms EPA Approval of Northern Ky. Vehicle Program End

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PSC Upholds Denial of Transmission Line Through National Forest

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12th Legislative Update: Complete Through March 10

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Constitutionality of Metro Parks - Trinity Tennis Court Agreement Questioned

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KRC re: New Secretary of NREPC

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KRC Inquires About Frontier's Mining Bond Coverage

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Opening Brief Filed In Nugent Zoning Appeal

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Alert March 3, 2001

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KRC Director Testifies Against Proposed Constitutional Amendment Allowing Legislative Committees To Veto Administrative Regulations

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Constitutional Amendment #1: we support it.

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KRC Asks Legislative Committee To Support Ban On Backyard Burning Of Household Garbage

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Reflecting on the Life of Jim Bickford

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www.kyrc.org crashed

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Citizens Coal Council and KRC Oppose Weakening of Permit Block Rules

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INTENT TO SUE SERVED ON EPA FOR ITS' FAILURE TO COMPLETE RULE PROTECTING KENTUCKY'S HIGH QUALITY STREAMS

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KRC Recommends Improvements In Meth Lab Property Cleanup Program

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THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE NOT-SO-SCENIC TRAIL

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Renewal of Landfaming Permit to Triple M Land Farms, Inc. Is Challenged

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2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Preview Edition

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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE #6: Complete Thru January 27

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Courier-Journal Coverage of KRC VET NOI

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Senate Bill Would Allow Taking Of Private Property For Private Use By CO2 Pipeline Company

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KRC Provides Supplemental Comments Opposing LG&E Special Waste Landfill

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