This list profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer, and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2021 General Assembly Regular Session. This year is a “short” session...
Continue readingThis edition includes updates on those bills passed by the General Assembly during the first week which have either been vetoed or have become law since the GA recessed (there is only one, SB 9), and those whose veto has been overridden...
Continue reading2021 Legislative Update: 3rd Edition. This edition includes updates on those bills passed by the Kentucky General Assembly during the 1st week which have either been vetoed or have become law since the General Assembly recessed.
Continue readingPSC Rules On Rate Increases Sought By Kentucky Power Company Commission defers decision on net metering, while providing important victories for ratepayers on most issues.
Continue readingCitizens Coal Council, Appalachian Voices, and Sierra Club — filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement's final Ten-Day Notice Rule.
Continue readingThis list profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2021 General Assembly Regular Session. This year is a “short” session, and
Continue readingKentucky's 2021 General Assembly is now in session and KRC is working hard to monitor the environmental, energy, and public health bills. Catch up on week 1.
Continue readingAnnouncing the 2020 Sue Anne Salmon Community Advocacy Award and the Winnie Hepler Lifetime Achievement Award!
Continue readingKRC joined 47 other consumer, civil rights, community, housing, & other public interest organizations in submitting comments in response to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s Request for Information on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act
Continue readingKRC Partners to Request the Abandonment of the Yazoo Pumps Project
Continue readingKRC joined with over 80 other organizations across the Nation in calling on the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to continue to make addressing toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)...
Continue readingOn November 16, KRC joined with 116 conservation, faith, and health organizations and businesses in urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw its rushed Proposal to Reissue and Modify Nationwide Permits.
Continue readingKRC Director, Tom FitzGerald, delivers Issues in Water and Energy Security at the 2020 Governor's Conference on Energy and the Environment.
Continue readingKentucky Heartwood and the Kentucky Resources Council jointly filed an administrative objection (“predecisional objection”) to the South Red Bird Wildlife Enhancement Project on the Daniel Boone National Forest.
Continue reading56 conservation, civic, and faith organizations and businesses commented on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to work on flood damage reduction solutions.
Continue readingThe amicus curiae brief, filed by KRC on behalf of long-time ally Scenic Kentucky, supports the constitutionality of the Billboard Act.
Continue readingRemembering A "Catalyst For Good" All of us at the Kentucky Resources Council join the many friends and the family of Judy Nichols in mourning her passing and celebrating her life and works.
Continue readingWe at the Kentucky Resources Council join family and friends in mourning the passing and celebrating the remarkable life of Mary Margaret Mulvihill, who died August 25, 2020.
Continue readingKRC was honored to be a signatory to a letter to United States Senators and Representatives highlighting water quality concerns and priorities of conservation organizations regarding the comprehensive water resources legislation pending.
Continue readingWhen KRC heard the concerns and received requests for assistance from a number of residents of Robertson County regarding a proposed limestone quarry that would be located adjacent to Indian Run, a tributary of the Licking River, KRC responded.
Continue readingIn response to the increasing interest in the development of solar energy resources in Kentucky, the Kentucky Resources Council has developed this Model Solar Zoning Ordinance to assist localities in adopting provisions to regulate the siting of sola
Continue readingThe Board and staff of the Kentucky Resources Council, and Fitz join with the family of Bob Logan in mourning his death at age 70 on Sunday, July 26, 2020, and in celebrating the life and enduring legacy that Bob leaves with us all.
Continue readingWith the recent increase in interest in siting utility-scale solar arrays in Kentucky, many communities with planning and zoning are considering adoption of specific provisions in zoning codes to address siting of solar arrays.
Continue readingKRC authored a "friend of the court" brief in the pending case of Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government Waste Management District et al. v. Jefferson County League of Cities, et. al. to provide the Supreme Court with additional information.
Continue readingThe Circuit Court had determined that the Public Service Commission (PSC) acted arbitrarily when it denied requests from the Metropolitan Housing Coalition, Association of Community Ministries, Sierra Club, and Community Action Council, to intervene
Continue readingWe fight to protect the land and people of our nation’s coalfields from environmental harm associated with surface coal mining operations. Read the comments in opposition to a proposed rule that would reduce federal oversight on coal mining operation
Continue readingWhat are the applicable state and federal laws concerning hazardous liquid pipelines? Make informed decision in planning and zoning to help keep communities safe.
Continue readingKRC was proud to join 73 other organizations in commenting in opposition to a proposed EPA rulemaking that would weaken environmental protections associated with the management of coal combustion residuals from coal-fired power plants.
Continue readingAs we have for each legislative session since 1984, we look back on the bills that KRC supported and opposed during the recently ended 2020 General Assembly Regular Session. With apologies to Clint Eastwood, here is The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Continue readingAfter surveying hundreds of acres Kentucky Heartwood found that the Forest Service marked and sold an estimated 13,163 more trees than what was approved in the 2017 project decision.
Continue readingThis list profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council supported, opposed, and tracked during the 2020 General Assembly Regular Session, complete through adjournment sine die.
Continue readingKentucky Resources Council signed on with 79 other organizations to request from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) an extension of all commenting periods and postponement of public hearings amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue readingKentucky Resources Council staff, along with its fellow Kentuckians, are working hard while being healthy at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are here for all of you and we are more dedicated than ever to protect Kentucky's environment.
Continue readingThis list profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2020 General Assembly Regular Session, complete through April 1, 2020.
Continue readingThis list profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2020 General Assembly Regular Session, complete through March 27.
Continue readingRead about the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2020 General Assembly Regular Session, complete through March 19th, 2020.
Continue readingKRC was proud to join with 330 other conservation, health, and justice organizations in calling for withdrawal of regulations that would weaken the National Environmental Policy Act.
Continue readingThis list profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2020 General Assembly Regular Session.
Continue readingEvery week, KRC profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2020 General Assembly Regular Session. Current through March 6.
Continue readingThis list profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2020 General Assembly Regular Session, complete through February 28th.
Continue readingRead more about the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2020 General Assembly Regular Session.
Continue readingThis list profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2020 General Assembly Regular Session, complete through February 14, 2020.
Continue readingWe pause in remembrance of Marty Solomon, friend and advisor to the Council.
Continue readingThis list profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2020 General Assembly, through February 7, 2020.
Continue readingRead the 4th edition of the 2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching.
Continue readingIn testimony before the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee on January 30, 202, KRC voiced grave concerns regarding the expansive broadening of criminal liability with respect to "key infrastructure assets."
Continue readingClark Circuit Court Affirms Board of Adjustment Decision That Scrap Facility Expanded Impermissibly
Continue reading2020 General Assembly: Legislative Update Week #3. Catch up on what's happened this week.
Continue readingKRC Expresses Concerns With Exempting Municipal Electricity And Natural Gas Purchases And Sales From Competitive Bidding
Continue readingRead the second legislative update on the bills we're following in the Kentucky 2020 General Assembly.
Continue readingHere is the 1st Edition of the 2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching!
Continue readingKRC Endorses Sierra Club Comments In Opposition To Section 404 Permit for Proposed Harlan County Strip Mine
Continue readingKRC comments on the request by the Nucor Corporation for Section 404 Permit for their proposed Brandenburg, Kentucky steel plate mill.
Continue readingKRC represents Powell County citizens in challenging the issuance of a "less-than-one-acre" construction and demolition debris (CDD) landfill issued by the Energy and Environment Cabinet to Blaze Enterprises LLC.
Continue readingIn written comments filed, KRC joined Kentucky Heartwood in requesting that the Daniel Boone National Forest Supervisor conduct predecisional review of certain remaining issues.
Continue readingKRC Joins Kentucky Heartwood In Requesting Predecisional Review By DBNF Supervisor Of Pine Creek Forest Project
Continue readingSupplemental Comments on the Consideration of Net Metering
Continue readingHost Agreements 101 provides information to government solid waste management areas and to the public concerning the role that host agreements can play in assuring that the concerns of counties and communities hosting solid waste landfills
Continue readingPlease attend and participate at the Public Hearing on November 13, 2019 at 9 a.m. EST at the offices of the Kentucky Public Service Commission, 211 Sower Blvd. Frankfort, Kentucky.
Continue readingGovernor Bevin and Transportation Cabinet Secretary Thomas announced that the proposed I-65 / I-71 Regional Connector Planning Study will no longer consider crossing through property owned by the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.
Continue readingWhat verification is provided by the Division of Waste Mgmt. regarding.
Continue readingIn the matter of electronic consideration of the implementation of the net metering act, Kentucky Resources Council submits preliminary consideration for the solar energy net-metering issue in Kentucky.
Continue readingKRC Joins Kentucky Heartwood In Comments On the Pine Creek Forest Reforestation Project
Continue readingKRC comments on proposed revisions to Kentucky's oil and gas regulations. The Oil and Gas Workgroup,(KRC is a member) continues to develop consensus improvements in the regulation of the environmental impacts of oil and gas development in Kentucky.
Continue readingOn August 28, 2019, the Danville-Boyle County Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously passed the increased regulations, providing a safer community for Boyle County residents.
Continue readingDespite the fact that almost all e-waste can be reused, refurbished, or recycled, only 20% is actually handled appropriately due in large part to the lack of regulation and recycling infrastructure.
Continue readingIn April 2019, LG&E, a utility company based in Louisville, Kentucky, announced the construction of a new natural gas transmission pipeline in Bullitt County. This pipeline was explained as necessary in order for LG&E to meet the growth in the area.
Continue readingEnvironmental justice is a concept that proposes a more equitable distribution of pollution burdens throughout the United States. Kentucky Resources Council's policy team, Tom FitzGerald, and Liz Edmondson outline the steps needed to pursue this.
Continue readingRecently, the Herald-Leader reached out to KRC Director, Tom FitzGerald, concerning Kentucky's coal industry low compliance rates.
Continue readingTo insure that KRC's advocacy and defense programs you have helped to create will last long into the future, we have opened an endowment fund with Blue Grass Community Foundation. Endowment funds are designed to provide annual financial support to or
Continue readingThe Board of the Kentucky Resources Council, Inc. today established a new award to be bestowed annually on an individual whose life’s work has shown the dedication, selfless commitment to nature and others, and courage to speak against injustice.
Continue readingOn behalf of our millions of members and supporters, we urge you to restore the 2016 moratorium on new federal coal leasing until the federal government can complete a thorough programmatic environmental impact review of the federal coal leasing.
Continue readingKentucky Environmental Leadership Institute: Interest Survey
Continue readingThe 2019 Kentucky Resources Council (KRC) Survey is out now. Share your opinions on the most pressing environmental issues and what resources KRC can provide.
Continue readingRead more about the bills and resolutions that KRC supported and opposed during the 2019 General Assembly Regular Session, and the outcomes of those bills and resolutions.
Continue readingRead about the final disposition of bills that KRC supported, opposed, and tracked during the 2019 General Assembly Regular Session, which ended March 28.
Continue readingThis list profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2019 General Assembly Regular Session, complete through March 14th.
Continue readingA profile of the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2019 General Assembly Regular Session, complete through March 7, 2019
Continue readingHB 420, sponsored by Rep. Adam Bowling, would revise laws governing radon contractor certification. A Committee Substitute added language deny public access to agency records regarding radon measurement, jeopardizing public health.
Continue readingFour residents of Harlan County have petitioned to designate the historic districts of the towns Benham and Lynch, Kentucky, the viewshed of those districts, and the water sources of the towns as unsuitable for strip mining.
Continue readingThis list profiles the environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2019 General Assembly complete through end of day March 1, 2019.
Continue readingA petition to designate the historic districts within the cities of Benham and Lynch Kentucky and the viewshed from those districts, and the watersheds that provide the water supply for the towns as areas unsuitable for mining has been drafted by KRC
Continue readingOver the past 5 years, a working group comprised of oil and gas operators, landowner representatives, agency officials, and the Kentucky Resources Council, have developed several bills that have modernized regulation of oil and gas operations.
Continue readingSB 163 would allow Kentucky-American Water Company to overvalue water systems it acquires and use that overvaluation to justify rate increases. KRC provided an extensive analysis as to why SB 163 is a bad deal for ratepayers.
Continue readingSB 2 allows a state agency or the General Assembly when sued to request, without any basis or reason, a change of venue that would be determined by a random lottery. KRC director, Tom FitzGerald, testified against the bill.
Continue readingThe original version of SB 100 was a utility-crafted bill intended to end the net metering of electricity and corner the market on the sun. House Floor Amendment 1 address most of KRC's concerns with the original bill.
Continue readingRead more about the environmental, consumer and general government bills that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2019 General Assembly Regular Session, complete through end of day February 22, 2019.
Continue readingThese are the bills and resolutions that the Kentucky Resources Council is supporting, opposing, and tracking during the 2019 General Assembly Regular Session, complete through end of legislative day February 8, 2019.
Continue readingThese are the bills and resolutions we're tracking in the 2019 Legislative Session
Continue readingThe Franklin Circuit Court granted a Temporary Injunction ordering the Public Service Commission to allow low-income and environmental advocacy groups to participate in pending LG&E and KU rate cases.
Continue readingIn an August 21, 2018 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit remanded several regulations on coal ash disposal, promulgated under the Obama Administration, which the Court found to be underprotective of the environment.
Continue readingIn a September 7, 2018 Order, the PSC has directed Peoples Gas Ky LLC to respond to a complaint by Georgia Johnson that their plan to discontinue gas service violates their duty to furnish adequate service. Peoples Gas has ten days to respond.
Continue readingKRC is working with the StroboBarkley law firm in the City of Crossgate's challenge to decision of the VA to build a new hospital on Brownsboro Road. The suit raises questions of compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act by the VA.
Continue readingLG&E and KU's most recent demand-side management and energy efficiency filing proposes to eliminate several programs for residential customers. KRC represents the Metro Housing Coalition in the case, which awaits decision by the PSC.
Continue readingIn an Order entered on August 30, 2018, the Kentucky Public Service Commission denied the request by LG&E and KU to Deploy Smart Meters, ruling that the utilities provided insufficient evidence to justify expense.
Continue readingKRC's Director, Tom FitzGerald, serves as a federal Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) commissioner and made comments opposing ORSANCO's proposal to eliminate water pollution standards for the Ohio River.
Continue readingThe regulations had been criticized both by regulated industries and environmental organizations. KRC had recommended withdrawal of the regulatory proposal because it was underprotective of public health and the environment in many areas...
Continue readingOn April 27, 2001, Secretary James Bickford entered an Order - declaring that 2,364 acres of land within the area north of the Pine Mountain Settlement School as unsuitable for all types of surface coal mining operations.
Continue readingKRS Chapter 13A is designed to assure that an agency regulation is subject to public notice and comment. The agency request plainly violates both the letter and spirit of KRS Chapter 13A and deprives the public of notice and comment.
Continue reading2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Eighth Edition!
Continue reading2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Seventh Edition!
Continue reading2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Sixth Edition
Continue reading2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Fifth Edition
Continue readingKentucky Senate Should Reject Proposed Amendment Allowing Limits On Recovery Of Damages For Pain and Suffering
Continue readingDebunking The Myth That Solar Customers Are Freeloading
Continue reading2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: First Edition
Continue readingMetropolitan Housing Coalition (MHC) Seeks To Intervene In PSC Case Where LG&E and KU Seek To Reduce Energy Efficiency and Demand Management Programs
Continue readingConstitutional Amendment Giving Legislative Committee Veto Power Over Regulations Is A Solution in Search of a Problem
Continue readingAllegheny Defense Project, Kentucky Heartwood, and KRC seek rehearing of FERC approval of Kinder-Morgan's Pipeline "Abandonment."
Continue readingKRC Comments On Investigative Phase Of Corrective Action Plan for Contamination At E.W. Brown Power Plant
Continue readingWith Thanks On The Occasion of D. Todd Littlefield's Retirement!
Continue reading40th Anniversary of passage of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 is a time for sober reflection.
Continue readingSETTLEMENT IN LG&E AND KU RATE CASES PROTECTS VULNERABLE RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS, MODERATES THE AMOUNT AND IMPACT OF RATE INCREASES
Continue reading2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 6th Edition!
Continue readingFloor Amendment Does Not Fix Unfair, Unconstitutional Developers Dream Bill
Continue readingKRC Director Testifies On Bill Completing Deregulation of AT&T and Windstream Phone Services
Continue reading2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 4th Edition
Continue reading2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 7th Edition
Continue readingHouse Bill 72, The Anti-Neighbor Zoning Appeal Bond Bill, Moved To Senate State Government Committee.
Continue readingKRC Testifies Before Senate Committee On AT&T's Bill Completing Deregulation Of Basic Phone Service
Continue reading2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 2nd Edition
Continue readingStatement Opposing Energy & Environment Cabinet Utility Coal Waste Rules
Continue readingKRC Opposes Bill That Would Require Appeal Bond As A Condition Of Appealing Rezoning Decision
Continue reading2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching!
Continue readingKRC Opposes "Reckless" Proposal To Allow Coal Combustion Ash Generators To Self-Regulate
Continue readingKRC Provides Supplemental Comments Opposing LG&E Special Waste Landfill
Continue readingAn Alternative To The Star Energy/Heaven Hill Anaerobic Digester Proposal
Continue readingKRC Comments In Opposition To LGE Coal Combustion Waste Landfill
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Biodigester Zoning Revisions
Continue readingYou cannot expect to create a healthy economy while failing to invest in public health and environmental protection. We have eked by, doing the bare minimum required of us, and as the federal framework of environmental protection has been dismantled
Continue reading2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We Watched: The Final Edition
Continue reading2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: 13th Edition!
Continue reading2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Twelfth Edition!
Continue readingKRC Opposes Proposed Constitutional Amendment Giving Legislative Committees Veto Power Over Regulations
Continue reading2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Ninth Edition!
Continue readingBill Would Impose Appeal Bond On Appeals To Court of Appeals In Planning And Zoning Cases
Continue readingSB 89 Would Lift Kentucky Moratorium On New Nuclear Plants
Continue readingEffort To Expand Net Metering in Kentucky Stalls
Continue reading2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The Eighth Edition!
Continue reading2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Fourth Edition
Continue reading2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We'll Be Watching: Second Edition!
Continue reading2016 General Assembly in Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The First Edition!
Continue readingKRC Supplemental Comments On Proposed Anaerobic Digester Project
Continue readingAs KRC continues its 32nd year of environmental advocacy, we look back on what the Council has accomplished for the continued well-being of the Commonwealth and its citizens, and we reflect on how vital the support of our members and friends...
Continue readingThis facility does not fit under the definition of a non-accessory alternative energy system, which is defined as [a]ny facility or installation such as a windmill, hydroelectric unit or solar collecting or concentrating array.
Continue readingKRC Opposes Location of Four Anaerobic Biodigester Units In Louisville's California Neighborhood
Continue readingAgreed Order Of Judgment Ends Suit Against Boyd County Landfill; Provides Better Control On Future Operations
Continue readingChallenge to EPA Approval of 2013 Kentucky water quality standards for selenium and for preventing eutrophication results in settlement agreement.
Continue readingTimber Theft Is Topic Of Interim Committee Meeting
Continue readingKRC Participates In Panel Discussion On EPA's Clean Power Plan At Governor's Conference On The Environment
Continue readingBillboard Regulations Allowing Multiple Message Electronic Billboards And Tree-Cutting In Public Rights-Of-Way Seriously Flawed
Continue readingKRC questions legality of proposed regulations allowing electronic multi-message billboards, and allowing destruction of trees in public rights of way to improve billboard visibility.
Continue readingThis year is a short session, and began on January 6, 2015, recessed until February 3, 2015, and is back in session with a scheduled adjournment of March 24, 2015. There remain 17 Legislative Days left in this short session...
Continue readingThis year is a short session, and began on January 6, 2015, recessed until February 3, 2015, and is back in session with a scheduled adjournment of March 24, 2015. There remain 17 Legislative Days left in this short session...
Continue readingSOME BACKGROUND ON THE UTICA MARCELLUS TEXAS PIPELINE PROJECT
Continue reading2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 7th Edition
Continue reading2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 6th Edition!
Continue readingHOUSE BILL 240 WOULD IMPOSE AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL BARRIER TO ACCESS TO THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR REVIEW OF ZONING DECISIONS
Continue readingThis year is a short session, and began on January 6, 2015, recessed until February 3, 2015, and is back in session with a scheduled adjournment of March 24, 2015. There remain 17 Legislative Days left in this short session...
Continue readingAT&T Bills Would Impede, Not Expand, High Speed Rural Broadband Access
Continue reading2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 3rd Edition
Continue reading2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 2nd Edition
Continue readingKRC Testifies In Opposition To AT&T Deregulation Bill
Continue reading2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching
Continue readingKRC Director Testifies Against Proposed Constitutional Amendment Allowing Legislative Committees To Veto Administrative Regulations
Continue readingLooking Back At 2014: KRC As Others See Us
Continue readingCelebrating the Graduates of the Green Institute Class of 2014
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Amendment to State Merchant Plant Siting Board Rules
Continue readingKRC Outlines Priorities For Reform Of Oil And Gas Laws And Regulations
Continue readingKRC Comments On Coal General Discharge Permits
Continue reading2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN REGULAR SESSION: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Continue readingFitz Gives Keynote Address To 24th Annual Heartwood Forest Council Gathering
Continue readingRenewal of Landfaming Permit to Triple M Land Farms, Inc. Is Challenged
Continue readingStatement Of Tom FitzGerald on Being Nominated As A Federal Commissioner To The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission
Continue readingKRC Joins the National Parks Conservation Association and 26 other groups in filing a friend of the court brief supporting the Chesapeake Bay TMDL Clean Water Blueprint
Continue reading2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Final Edition!
Continue reading2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Twelfth Edition
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Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Environmental Assessment for Texas Gas Abandonment Project
Continue readingKRC Presents Testimony To House Committee In Opposition To SB 99 Phone Deregulation Bill
Continue readingSB 99 Ends Public Service Commission Power Over Consumer Complaints In Many Kentucky Cities
Continue readingDormant Landlines In Rural Areas May Not Be Able To Reactivate Landline Service Under SB 99
Continue readingReply Memorandum Filed In Bluegrass Pipeline Eminent Domain Case
Continue reading2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Ninth Edition
Continue readingKRC Expresses Support For Removing Position of For-Profit Water Provider From Kentucky Infrastructure Authority Board
Continue readingKRC Expresses Concerns With Bill Stripping Public Service Commission of Power To Determine Value Of Acquired Utility Water And Sewer Assets
Continue reading2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Seventh Edition
Continue readingMotion Seeks Ruling That Bluegrass Pipeline Lacks Eminent Domain Power
Continue readingWhy AT&T's SB 99 Is Bad For Small Towns And Rural Areas of Kentucky
Continue readingNumbers Show Lack of Need For Senate Bill 1
Continue reading2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Fourth Edition!
Continue readingKRC Opposes Bill That Would Lift Nuclear Plant Moratorium
Continue readingKRC Testifies Against New AT&T Phone Deregulation Bill
Continue readingKRC Testimony In Opposition To Senate Bill 1
Continue reading2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Third Edition
Continue reading2014 AT&T Draft Bill Fails To Assure Continued Access To Reliable Basic Phone Service For All Kentuckians
Continue reading2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Second Edition!
Continue reading2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The First Edition
Continue readingThe increasing inability of those on low- and fixed-incomes to meet utility costs is a dire situation that affects the health of those individuals and families, and also has financial impacts on the remaining ratepayer base.
Continue readingFirst, we must recognize that doing nothing is not an option. Climate change is occurring, the rate of GHG emissions are a significant factor, fossil fuel...
Continue readingComplaint challenges EPA approval of selenium water quality standard for Kentucky
Continue readingComplaint Seeks Court Ruling On Whether Bluegrass Pipeline Company LLC Can Condemn Property For Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline
Continue readingA Conversation On Conservation And Stewardship
Continue reading"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. Voltaire
Continue readingOpening Memorandum Filed In Appeal Challenging Rejection Of Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition For Lynch and Benham, Kentucky
Continue readingKarst and the proposed Bluegrass NGL Pipeline
Continue readingKRC Urges Federal Energy Regulatory Commission To Conduct Full Environmental Impact Statement On Bluegrass Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline
Continue readingConcerns With Prefiled Bill That Would Broaden NGL Pipeline Condemnation Power
Continue readingDrakes Creek Holding Limestone Permit Challenged
Continue readingUnderstanding Eminent Domain in Kentucky and how it relates to the Bluegrass Pipeline Project
Continue readingSOME BASIC INFORMATION FOR LANDOWNERS ON GRANTING AND RESCINDING SURVEY PERMISSION
Continue readingGovernor Beshear Should Add Regulation of Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Siting, and Condemnation Power of Non-Utility Pipelines, To August 19 Special Session Call
Continue readingKRC Calls On Bluegrass Pipeline Partners To Agree To A Comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement
Continue readingDebate On Coal With the Bluegrass Institute's Jim Waters and KRC's Director Tom FitzGerald is Now Online
Continue readingBullitt County Quarry Case Briefed And Awaiting Court Review
Continue reading2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Seventh Edition
Continue reading2013 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Continue readingIs AT&T's Wireless Home Service Comparable To Existing Wireline Basic Phone Service?
Continue readingSB 88 NOT LIKELY TO MATERIALLY INCREASE AT&Ts CAPITAL SPENDING IN KENTUCKY ABOVE PAST LEVELS
Continue readingKRC Joins State Chamber, Kentucky Association of Manufacturers In Expressing Concern Over HB 211
Continue readingBill Exempting Strip Mining In Streams From Mine Permitting If Done For "Farm Purposes" Could Be Bad For The Environment And Farmers
Continue readingA Closer Look At AT&T's "$14 Billion Investment"
Continue readingTop Ten Reasons Why AT&Ts SB 88 Is Bad For Kentucky
Continue reading2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Fourth Edition
Continue readingCouncil Expresses Concern That Costs Of Wheeling Purchased Power For Aluminum Smelter Not Be Shifted To Remaining Big Rivers Electric Co-operative Ratepayers
Continue readingHouse Bill 165 Would Allow Mining of Noncoal Minerals in Streams Without A Permit If Done For "Farm Purposes"
Continue readingUnfortunately, this has not been a helpful conversation.I'm disappointed since this is the second time I've had to reach out to customer service on this matter and the first time I was given wrong information and the second time, I was told that I co
Continue readingKRC Expresses Concern With Bills Allowing Aluminum Smelters To Bypass Their Electric Generation Utility
Continue reading2013 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Third Edition
Continue readingWill Multiple-Message Electronic Billboards Spread Along Kentucky's Highways
Continue readingAT&T Proposal To Deregulate Basic Phone Service Could Hurt Rural, Low- and Fixed-Income Kentuckians
Continue readingCouncil Board Endorses Biomass Campaign Platform
Continue readingAT&T Gearing Up To Seek End To Obligation To Provide Stand-alone Basic Telephone Service
Continue readingAT&T Again Seeks To End Obligation To Provide Stand-Alone Basic Phone Service To Kentucky Customers
Continue readingHouse Bill 110 Would Disallow Use Of Fuel Adjustment Clause For Baseload Gas-Fired Electric Utilities; Creating Inequities And Higher Costs For Ratepayers
Continue reading2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The First Edition
Continue reading2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Prefiled Edition
Continue readingCouncil Opposes Reissuance of Permit To "Landfarm" Petroleum-Contaminated Soils
Continue readingKRC Signs Joint Letter With 94 Other Organizations In Seeking Reforms In Federal Water Resources Development Act
Continue readingKRC Director Gives Commencement Address To 1st Green Institute Class
Continue readingKRC Comments on Proposed Changes To Noncoal Permitting Regulations
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Changes to Kentucky Airport Zoning Commission Regulations
Continue readingWinnie Hepler Honored By Kentucky Heartwood
Continue readingKentucky's Proposed Hunting Amendment : A Solution In Search Of A Problem
Continue readingKRC Comments on Proposed Changes to State Water Quality Standards
Continue readingAloma Dew Is First Recipient of Sue Anne Salmon Community Advocacy Award
Continue readingKRC Director Participates on Panel on Coal Mine Reclamation Bonding
Continue readingKRC Comments On Changes To Pesticide Application Regulations
Continue readingZoning Approval For Western Kentucky Strip Mine Is Challenged
Continue readingThe Council Comments On Revisions To Public Service Commission Regulations
Continue readingKentucky Heartwood and KRC comment on proposed Consent Decree affecting Daniel Boone National Forest
Continue readingChanges In Bonding Regulations Criticized As Inadequate To Protect Rights of Landowners
Continue readingCouncil Voices Concerns Regarding Louisville Landmarks Ordinance Amendments
Continue readingKRC Comments Support EPA's Proposed Veto of 36 Coal Mining Discharge Permits
Continue reading2012: KRC Recaps "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" from the General Assembly Regular Session
Continue readingKRC Comments on Proposed Mining Regulation Amendment
Continue readingKRC Summarizes 2012 Session Bills Of Interest To State Bar
Continue readingCouncil comments on proposal to eliminate fueling station vapor controls for Jefferson County
Continue readingany intrastate area (and every part thereof) designated as attainment or unclassifiable under section 107(d)(1)(A)(ii) or (iii) of the Act in which the major source or major modification establishing the minor source baseline date would construct...
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Quarry In Simpson County
Continue reading2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Final Edition
Continue reading2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Thirteenth Edition
Continue reading2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Twelfth Edition
Continue reading2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Eleventh Edition
Continue readingSenate Bill 12 to become new vehicle for AT&T phone deregulation bill
Continue reading2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We?re Watching: The Ninth Edition
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