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EPA Meeting to Discuss the Proposed Steam Electric Rule 

EPA will be meeting with community members to talk about ideas and strategies for limiting pollution from power plants, concerns from community members related to power plants or other sources of pollution, and more.

KRC and Allies Score a Win for Bernheim and Bats

The pipeline project that would cut through the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest is now on hold! Read more about this important delay and how it benefits endangered bats.

2022 Legislative Update #14

The final disposition of bills and resolution on which KRC took a position is here. Note that for several bills that were passed April 13 or 14th for the first time, they may be subject to veto during the next ten days.

2022 Legislative Update #10

The 2022 General Assembly has begun and we at the Kentucky Resources Council are once again tracking environmental, conservation, consumer, energy, and general government bills and resolutions.

2022 Legislative Update #9

This year is a “long” 60-legislative day session and began on January 4, 2022, with an anticipated final day on April 14, 2022. The General Assembly will not be in session on these dates: February 21, March 14, 21, and 28th.

2022 Legislative Update #8

The 2022 General Assembly has begun and we at the Kentucky Resources Council are once again tracking environmental, conservation, consumer, energy, and general government bills and resolutions.

2022 Legislative Update: #7

Kentucky Resources Council is once again tracking environmental, conservation, consumer, energy, and general government bills and resolutions during the 2022 General Assembly.

2022 Legislative Update #6

2022 Legislative Update #5

This year is a “long” 60-legislative day session and began on January 4, 2022, with an anticipated final day on April 14, 2022. The General Assembly will not be in session on these dates: February 21, March 14, 21, and 28th.

2022 Legislative Update #4

There are only 38 days remaining in the 2022 Regular Session. Catch up on the environmental, energy, and public health bills we're supporting and opposing and then make a plan to contact your legislator!

2022 Legislative Update: #3

There are 42 days remaining in the 2022 session! You can read now the environmental, energy, and public health bills we're tracking through our third legislative update.

Action Alert: Ask to Oppose HB341

HB 341 threatens higher utility costs for residential, commercial, and industrial customers, and threatens to damage economic development and job creation due to increased rates and charges.

2022 Legislative Update #2

Find the bills we're tracking. This summary is complete through end of legislative day 13, January 21, 2022. There are 47 legislative days remaining in the 2022 Regular Session.

2022 Legislative Update: The First Edition

The 2022 General Assembly has begun KRC is once again tracking environmental, conservation, consumer, energy, and general government bills and resolutions.

Fighting for Increased Mining Operations Oversight

KRC represents Citizens Coal Council, Appalachian Voices, and the Sierra Club in U.S. District Court in a federal court challenge to the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement’s (OSMRE) revised Ten-Day Notice Rule.

Kentucky Resources Council Welcomes Ashley Wilmes as New Director

The Board and staff of the Kentucky Resources Council are pleased to announce the hiring of Ashley Wilmes as the new Director of the Council, effective October 1, 2021. Tom FitzGerald, better known as “Fitz,” Director of the Council for 37 years...

Endow Kentucky 2021

Beginning July 1 your gift to our endowment fund, the Kentucky Resources Foundation, can be rewarded with a great tax incentive: the Endow Kentucky Tax Credit.

KRC Director to Participate in Net Metering Webinar

Learn about the New Net Metering Rates for Kentucky Power Company following the recent order from the PSC on net metering! Webinar is June 3 with KYSES.

KRC Supports Implementation Guidance for the Water Resources Development Act

The undersigned 74 conservation, faith, civic, social justice, and recreation organizations appreciate the opportunity to comment on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) implementation guidance (Guidance) for the Water Resources Development Act..

KRC Supports Whistleblower Protections

Government Accountability Project and the undersigned 264 organizations write to support freedom of speech protections for whistleblowers who strengthen our nation’s democracy, challenge abuses of power that betray the public trust, and catalyze...

2021 Legislative Update: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

As we have after each legislative session since 1984, we present “The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly” - the highs and lows of the 2021 General Assembly in Regular Session.

2021 Legislative Update: 9th Edition

The Kentucky General Assembly reconvened March 29 and 30th for two final days and adjourned sine die (until January 2022 unless called into Special Session by the Governor before then) on March 30.

2021 Legislative Update: Action Alert 4 on HB272

Please email today and call Monday morning and ask Kentucky Representatives and Senators to "Let the veto of HB 272 stand." Take a minute to give yourself a hand, because you've done GREAT so far. Your calls and emails helped convince the Governor...

2021 Legislative Update: Action Alert 3 on HB272

House Bill 272 has gotten a lot of press because it allows small rural Water Districts and Water Associations to charge at 10% late fee on water bills, and prevents the Public Service Commission, which regulates them, from disallowing those late fees

2021 Legislative Update: 8th Edition

TWO DAYS LEFT! WHAT'S GOING ON IN FRANKFORT? 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...

2021 Legislative Update: 7th Edition

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; complete through the end of day March 12. 

2021 Legislative Update: 6th Edition

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 list is current thru March 5.

Eastern Kentucky Flooding Resources

Eastern Kentucky has been hit hard by record flooding in March 2021. A lot of individuals and organizations across the state are working to coordinate in-kind and monetary donations to help. Check out the list of these opportunities to help.

2021 Legislative Update: Action Alert 1 on HB272

KRC opposes House Bill 272, which would allow a water district or water association to impose a 10% late fee on a customer who fails to pay a water or sewer bill and would prevent the Public Service Commission from suspending or disallowing such a...

2021 Legislative Update: 5th Edition

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...

2021 Legislative Update: 4th Edition

This 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...

2021 Legislative Update: 3rd Edition

2021 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.

PSC Rules On Rate Increases Sought By Kentucky Power Company

PSC Rules On Rate Increases Sought By Kentucky Power Company Commission defers decision on net metering, while providing important victories for ratepayers  on most issues.

KRC Represents Sierra Club, Citizens Coal Council, Appalachian Voices

Citizens 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.

2021 Legislative Update: 2nd Edition

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, and

2021 Legislative Update: 1st Edition

Kentucky'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.

2020 KRC Awards

Announcing the 2020 Sue Anne Salmon Community Advocacy Award and the Winnie Hepler Lifetime Achievement Award!

Request for Information on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act

KRC 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

KRC Partners to Request the Abandonment of the Yazoo Pumps Project

KRC Partners to Request the Abandonment of the Yazoo Pumps Project

KRC Partners to Request Toxic PFAS a Remain a Priority in FY2021

KRC 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)...

KRC Partners on Call to Stop the Weakening of Clean Water Protections

On 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.

Issues in Water and Energy Security

KRC Director, Tom FitzGerald, delivers Issues in Water and Energy Security at the 2020 Governor's Conference on Energy and the Environment.

Kentucky Heartwood Files Formal Objection to South Red Bird Project

Kentucky 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.

KRC Partners on Call to Comprehensive Long-Term Flood Damage Reduction

56 conservation, civic, and faith organizations and businesses commented on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to work on flood damage reduction solutions.

KRC Files Amicus Brief on Kentucky Billboard Act

The amicus curiae brief, filed by KRC on behalf of long-time ally Scenic Kentucky, supports the constitutionality of the Billboard Act.

Remembering A "Catalyst For Good"

Remembering 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. 

Remembering Mary Margaret Mulvihill

We 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.

KRC Supports Clean Water

KRC 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.

KRC Comments on a Proposed Limestone Quarry

When 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.

Model Ordinance: Kentucky Model Solar Zoning Ordinance

In 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

Remembering Bob Logan

The 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.

Relationship of local zoning and planning to Kentucky State Board On Electric Generation And Transmission Siting

With 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.

Kentucky Supreme Court accepts KRC's "Friend of the Court" brief in solid waste planning case.

KRC 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.

The Fight To Assure Fair Representation For Low-Income Advocates In Utility Rate Cases Continues

The 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

Coalfield Advocates Oppose Federal Rule Reducing Federal Oversight of State Regulation of Coal Mining Operations

We 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

20-01: Planning, Zoning and Hazardous Liquids Pipelines

What are the applicable state and federal laws concerning hazardous liquid pipelines? Make informed decision in planning and zoning to help keep communities safe.

KRC Opposes Proposed EPA Rule to Weaken Standards On Coal Combustion Residuals

KRC 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. 

2020 General Assembly In Retrospect: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

As 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.

Illegal Selling of Daniel Boone National Forest Trees

After 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.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: The 14th Edition!

This 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.

Request for Extension of Commenting Period during COVID-19 Pandemic

Kentucky 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.

On COVID-19

Kentucky 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.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: The 13th Edition!

This 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.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: The 12th Edition!

This 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.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: The 11th Edition!

Read 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.

KRC Joins In Call To Withdraw Regulations Weakening NEPA

KRC 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.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: The Tenth Edition!

This 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.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: The Ninth Edition!

Every 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.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: The Eighth Edition!

This 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.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: The Seventh Edition!

Read 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.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: The Sixth Edition!

This 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.

Remembering Marty Solomon

We pause in remembrance of Marty Solomon, friend and advisor to the Council.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: The Fifth Edition

This 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.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: 4th Edition

Read the 4th edition of the 2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching.

KRC Opposes Significant Expansion Of Criminal Liability Relating to Infrastructure

In 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."

Circuit Court Win In Clark County Zoning Case

Clark Circuit Court Affirms Board of Adjustment Decision That Scrap Facility Expanded Impermissibly

2020 General Assembly: Legislative Update Week #3

2020 General Assembly: Legislative Update Week #3. Catch up on what's happened this week.

KRC Voices Concerns With House Bill 247

KRC Expresses Concerns With Exempting Municipal Electricity And Natural Gas Purchases And Sales From Competitive Bidding

2020 General Assembly: Legislative Update Week #2

Read the second legislative update on the bills we're following in the Kentucky 2020 General Assembly.

2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: First Edition

Here is the 1st Edition of the 2020 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching!

KRC Endorses Sierra Club Comments In Opposition to Harlan County Strip Mine

KRC Endorses Sierra Club Comments In Opposition To Section 404 Permit for Proposed Harlan County Strip Mine

Nucor Construction on the Bank of the Ohio River

KRC comments on the request by the Nucor Corporation for Section 404 Permit for their proposed Brandenburg, Kentucky steel plate mill.

KRC Assists Residents of Powell County in Challenging Proposed Landfill

KRC 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.

KRC Joins Kentucky Heartwood In Requesting Predecisional Review By DBNF Supervisor Of Pine Creek Forest Project 

In written comments filed, KRC joined Kentucky Heartwood in requesting that the Daniel Boone National Forest Supervisor conduct predecisional review of certain remaining issues.

KRC Joins Kentucky Heartwood In Requesting Predecisional Review By DBNF Supervisor Of Pine Creek Forest Project

KRC Joins Kentucky Heartwood In Requesting Predecisional Review By DBNF Supervisor Of Pine Creek Forest Project

Supplemental Comments on the Consideration of Net Metering

Supplemental Comments on the Consideration of Net Metering

Host Agreements 101

Host 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

Let Your Voice Be Heard On the Future of Net Metering in Kentucky!

Please 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.

Case Update: Bernheim Arboretum & I-65/I-71

Governor 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.

Long-time KRC Member Comments On R&R Septic Permit Amendment

What verification is provided by the Division of Waste Mgmt. regarding.

Preliminary Comments on Net-Metering in Kentucky

In 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.

KRC Joins Kentucky Heartwood In Commenting On Draft Environmental Assessment for the Pine Creek Forest Reforestation Project

KRC Joins Kentucky Heartwood In Comments On the Pine Creek Forest Reforestation Project

Proposed Revisions to Kentucky's Oil and Gas Regulations

KRC 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.

New Pipeline Regulations in Boyle County

On August 28, 2019, the Danville-Boyle County Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously passed the increased regulations, providing a safer community for Boyle County residents.

Electronic Waste: Making the Case for E-Waste Recycling Programs

Despite 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.

Ongoing Work to Protect Bernheim Forest in Bullitt County

In 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.

Environmental Justice 101

Environmental 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.

KRC Director Interviewed by Herald-Leader on Coal Mines

Recently, the Herald-Leader reached out to KRC Director, Tom FitzGerald, concerning Kentucky's coal industry low compliance rates.

Endow Kentucky

To 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

Annual Award for Lifetime Achievement in Environmental and Justice Advocacy to Be Named for Winnie Hepler

The 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.

KRC Joins 50 Environmental Groups Calling for Moratorium on Federal Coal Leasing

On 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.

Kentucky Environmental Leadership Institute: Interest Survey

Kentucky Environmental Leadership Institute: Interest Survey

2019 KRC Survey

The 2019 Kentucky Resources Council (KRC) Survey is out now. Share your opinions on the most pressing environmental issues and what resources KRC can provide.

Spring 2019 Legislative Wrap Up: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Read 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.

2019 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: The Final Edition

Read about the final disposition of bills that KRC supported, opposed, and tracked during the 2019 General Assembly Regular Session, which ended March 28.

2019 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: 7th Edition

This 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.

2019 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: 6th Edition

A 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

House Bill 420 Requires Cabinet To Deny Public Access To Radon Information

HB 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.

PETITION FILED TO PROTECT WATER SUPPLY SOURCES OF THE HISTORIC TOWNS OF BENHAM AND LYNCH FROM STRIP MINING

Four 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.

2019 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: 5th Edition

This 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.

Protecting Benham and Lynch from Expanded Mining

A 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

HB 199 Would Create a Framework for Plugging 14,000 Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Across the State

Over 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.

Kentucky American Water Company's SB 163 is Unfair to Ratepayers - KRC Provides Extensive Comments Opposing the Bill

SB 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.

KRC's Director Testifies Against SB 2

SB 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.

Amendment to SB 100 Addresses Most Concerns with the Latest Utility Industry Effort to Kill Rooftop Solar

The 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.

2019 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: 4th Edition

Read 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.

2019 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: 2nd Edition

These 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.

2019 General Assembly: Bills We're Watching: 1st Edition

These are the bills and resolutions we're tracking in the 2019 Legislative Session

Public Service Commission Ordered To Allow Participation In LG&E Rate Case By Low-Income Advocates And Sierra Club

The 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.

Court of Appeals Decision Strikes Underprotective Coal Ash Regulations

In 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.

PSC Order Accepts Complaint Against Gas Utility Discontinuing Service

In 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.

KRC Assists In Challenge To VA Hospital Proposal

KRC 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.

Effort By LG&E and KU To Trim Energy Efficiency Programs Awaits PSC Ruling

LG&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.

Public Service Commission Denies LG&E and KU Application To Deploy "Smart Meters"

In 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.

Thousands Oppose ORSANCO's Proposal to Eliminate Water Pollution Control Standards for the Ohio River

KRC'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.

Request for Determination Regarding Applicability Of KRS 224.40.

KRC Requests That Governor Withdraw Mining Road Exemption

Business Lexington Article Summarizes Recent Day-Long Forum On Coal In Kentucky

KRC Comments On Proposed Changes to Louisville Air Toxics Program Regulations

KRC Responds To Announcement of Filing Of Bill By Senators McConnell and Paul To Limit EPA's Ability To Veto Mine Fill Permits

Bill To Strip Nature Preserves Commission Of Control Of Blackacre State Nature Preserve Is Tabled After Hearing In Senate Committee

Conservationists in Central Kentucky Needed

Kentucky-American Water Hearing Concludes, Briefs Due December 28.

DEREGULATION WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY: What The Consumer Would Lose If HB 337 Becomes Law

KRC Requests NOx Reductions Be Made Permanent Before Louisville Ozone Redesignation Is Approved

Model Confined Swine Feeding Ordinance Developed

Comments Submitted on Revisions to State Air Quality Regulations for PM2.5

STATE WITHDRAWS WEAK AIR TOXICS REGULATIONS

The 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...

Decision On Pine Mountain Petition

On 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.

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Twelve ? 1,030 Bills, 481 Resolutions, only 4 Legislative Days To Go!

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

Earth Day In The Cumberlands 2009

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

Sobering Thought

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

KRS 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.

Additional Testing Recommended For Coal Combustion Ash Used For Fill

Director receives award from KFTC For Service

Remembering Two Who Made A Difference

KRC Testifies On Environment Budget

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

Remembering Mike Mullins

2005 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching

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

Water Permitting Regulation Changes Reflect KRC Comments

Clean Coal...Isn't!

Net Metering Guidelines Are Posted On PSC Website

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

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

KRC Testifies on Coal Reclamation Bond Inadequacy

Congress' Environmental Scorecard Available

A poem from Nana Lampton

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

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

A Reminder About KRC's Email Policies

I-66 Wild Rivers Exemption Is Topic In Committee Meeting

As Others See KRC 2015

On the Passing Of A Dear And Gentle Friend

2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Eighth Edition!

2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Eighth Edition!

2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Seventh Edition!

2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Seventh Edition!

2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Sixth Edition

2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Sixth Edition

2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Fifth Edition

2018 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Fifth Edition

Kentucky Senate Should Reject Proposed Amendment Allowing Limits On Recovery Of Damages For Pain and Suffering

Kentucky Senate Should Reject Proposed Amendment Allowing Limits On Recovery Of Damages For Pain and Suffering

Debunking The Myth That Solar Customers Are Freeloading

Debunking The Myth That Solar Customers Are Freeloading

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

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

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

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

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

Metropolitan Housing Coalition (MHC) Seeks To Intervene In PSC Case Where LG&E and KU Seek To Reduce Energy Efficiency and Demand Management Programs

Metropolitan Housing Coalition (MHC) Seeks To Intervene In PSC Case Where LG&E and KU Seek To Reduce Energy Efficiency and Demand Management Programs

Constitutional Amendment Giving Legislative Committee Veto Power Over Regulations Is A Solution in Search of a Problem

Constitutional Amendment Giving Legislative Committee Veto Power Over Regulations Is A Solution in Search of a Problem

KRC seeks rehearing of FERC approval of Kinder-Morgan's Pipeline "Abandonment."

Allegheny Defense Project, Kentucky Heartwood, and KRC seek rehearing of FERC approval of Kinder-Morgan's Pipeline "Abandonment."

KRC Comments On Investigative Phase Of Corrective Action Plan for Contamination At E.W. Brown Power Plant

KRC Comments On Investigative Phase Of Corrective Action Plan for Contamination At E.W. Brown Power Plant

With Thanks On The Occasion of D. Todd Littlefield's Retirement!

With Thanks On The Occasion of D. Todd Littlefield's Retirement!

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

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

40th Anniversary of passage of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 is a time for sober reflection.

40th Anniversary of passage of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 is a time for sober reflection.

SETTLEMENT IN LG&E AND KU RATE CASES PROTECTS VULNERABLE RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS

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

REACT and KRC Comment On Request To Relax Air Toxics Standard

House Bill 246 Would Disrupt Solid Waste Planning In Louisville Metro

2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 6th Edition!

2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 6th Edition!

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

Floor Amendment Does Not Fix Unfair, Unconstitutional Developers Dream Bill

Floor Amendment Does Not Fix Unfair, Unconstitutional Developers Dream Bill

KRC Director Testifies On Bill Completing Deregulation of AT&T and Windstream Phone Services

KRC Director Testifies On Bill Completing Deregulation of AT&T and Windstream Phone Services

2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 4th Edition

2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 4th Edition

2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 7th Edition

2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 7th Edition

2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 3rd Edition

House Bill 72, The Anti-Neighbor Zoning Appeal Bond Bill, Moved To Senate State Government Committee.

House Bill 72, The Anti-Neighbor Zoning Appeal Bond Bill, Moved To Senate State Government Committee.

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

KRC Testifies Before Senate Committee On AT&T's Bill Completing Deregulation Of Basic Phone Service

KRC Testifies Before Senate Committee On AT&T's Bill Completing Deregulation Of Basic Phone Service

2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 2nd Edition

2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 2nd Edition

Statement Opposing Energy & Environment Cabinet Utility Coal Waste Rules

Statement Opposing Energy & Environment Cabinet Utility Coal Waste Rules

KRC Opposes Bill That Would Require Appeal Bond As A Condition Of Appealing Rezoning Decision

KRC Opposes Bill That Would Require Appeal Bond As A Condition Of Appealing Rezoning Decision

2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching!

2017 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching!

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

KRC Opposes "Reckless" Proposal To Allow Coal Combustion Ash Generators To Self-Regulate

KRC Opposes "Reckless" Proposal To Allow Coal Combustion Ash Generators To Self-Regulate

Remembering Patty Wallace

KRC Provides Supplemental Comments Opposing LG&E Special Waste Landfill

KRC Provides Supplemental Comments Opposing LG&E Special Waste Landfill

An Alternative To The Star Energy/Heaven Hill Anaerobic Digester Proposal

An Alternative To The Star Energy/Heaven Hill Anaerobic Digester Proposal

KRC Comments In Opposition To LGE Coal Combustion Waste Landfill

KRC Comments In Opposition To LGE Coal Combustion Waste Landfill

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

The Basics About Avigation Easements

The Basics About Avigation Easements

KRC Comments On Proposed Biodigester Zoning Revisions

KRC Comments On Proposed Biodigester Zoning Revisions

KRC Director Presents Sustainability Lecture At Centre College

You 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

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We Watched: The Final Edition

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We Watched: The Final Edition

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: 13th Edition!

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We?re Watching: 13th Edition!

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Twelfth Edition!

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Twelfth Edition!

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

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

KRC Opposes Proposed Constitutional Amendment Giving Legislative Committees Veto Power Over Regulations

KRC Opposes Proposed Constitutional Amendment Giving Legislative Committees Veto Power Over Regulations

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Ninth Edition!

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Ninth Edition!

KRC Opposes Second Bill To Lift Nuclear Plant Moratorium

Bill Would Impose Appeal Bond On Appeals To Court of Appeals In Planning And Zoning Cases

Bill Would Impose Appeal Bond On Appeals To Court of Appeals In Planning And Zoning Cases

SB 89 Would Lift Kentucky Moratorium On New Nuclear Plants

SB 89 Would Lift Kentucky Moratorium On New Nuclear Plants

Effort To Expand Net Metering in Kentucky Stalls

Effort To Expand Net Metering in Kentucky Stalls

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

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

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

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

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

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Fourth Edition

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Fourth Edition

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

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We'll Be Watching: Second Edition!

2016 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We'll Be Watching: Second Edition!

2016 General Assembly in Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The First Edition!

2016 General Assembly in Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The First Edition!

KRC Supplemental Comments On Proposed Anaerobic Digester Project

KRC Supplemental Comments On Proposed Anaerobic Digester Project

Looking Back On KRC's Work In 2015

As 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...

KRC Statement Opposing Conditional Use Permit For Biodigester

This 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.

KRC Opposes Location of Four Anaerobic Biodigester Units In Louisville's California Neighborhood

KRC Opposes Location of Four Anaerobic Biodigester Units In Louisville's California Neighborhood

Agreed Order Of Judgment Ends Suit Against Boyd County Landfill; Provides Better Control On Future Operations

Agreed Order Of Judgment Ends Suit Against Boyd County Landfill; Provides Better Control On Future Operations

Challenge to EPA Approval of 2013 Kentucky water quality standards for selenium and for preventing eutrophication results in settlement agreement.

Challenge to EPA Approval of 2013 Kentucky water quality standards for selenium and for preventing eutrophication results in settlement agreement.

Scenic Kentucky Challenges Regulations Allowing Electronic Variable Message Billboards

Timber Theft Is Topic Of Interim Committee Meeting

Timber Theft Is Topic Of Interim Committee Meeting

KRC Participates In Panel Discussion On EPA's Clean Power Plan At Governor's Conference On The Environment

KRC Participates In Panel Discussion On EPA's Clean Power Plan At Governor's Conference On The Environment

Billboard Regulations Allowing Multiple Message Electronic Billboards

Billboard Regulations Allowing Multiple Message Electronic Billboards And Tree-Cutting In Public Rights-Of-Way Seriously Flawed

Statement of KRC Director Tom FitzGerald On Proposed Stream Protection Rule

Remembering Deb Bledsoe

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

KRC questions legality of proposed regulations allowing electronic multi-message billboards, and allowing destruction of trees in public rights of way to improve billboard visibility.

KRC questions legality of proposed regulations allowing electronic multi-message billboards, and allowing destruction of trees in public rights of way to improve billboard visibility.

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

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

This 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...

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

This 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...

KRC Comments On Draft Billboard Regulation Revisions

BACKGROUND ON THE UTICA MARCELLUS TEXAS PIPELINE PROJECT

SOME BACKGROUND ON THE UTICA MARCELLUS TEXAS PIPELINE PROJECT

2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 7th Edition

2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 7th Edition

2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 6th Edition!

2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 6th Edition!

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

HOUSE BILL 240 WOULD IMPOSE AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL BARRIER TO ACCESS TO THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR REVIEW OF ZONING DECISIONS

HOUSE BILL 240 WOULD IMPOSE AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL BARRIER TO ACCESS TO THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR REVIEW OF ZONING DECISIONS

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

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

This 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...

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

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

Senate Bill 3: 2015 Version of AT&T's Deregulation Bill Fails To Assure Continued Access To Reliable Basic Phone Service For All Kentuckians

2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 3rd Edition

2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 3rd Edition

2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 2nd Edition

2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: 2nd Edition

KRC Testifies In Opposition To AT&T Deregulation Bill

KRC Testifies In Opposition To AT&T Deregulation Bill

2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching

2015 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching

Senate Bill 3 / House Bill 152: 2015 Version of AT&T's Deregulation Bill Fails To Assure Continued Access To Reliable Basic Phone Service For All Kentuckians

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

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

Looking Back At 2014: KRC As Others See Us

Looking Back At 2014: KRC As Others See Us

Celebrating the Graduates of the Green Institute Class of 2014

Celebrating the Graduates of the Green Institute Class of 2014

KRC Comments On Proposed Amendment to State Merchant Plant Siting Board Rules

KRC Comments On Proposed Amendment to State Merchant Plant Siting Board Rules

KRC Outlines Priorities For Reform Of Oil And Gas Laws And Regulations

KRC Outlines Priorities For Reform Of Oil And Gas Laws And Regulations

KRC Comments On Coal General Discharge Permits

KRC Comments On Coal General Discharge Permits

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN REGULAR SESSION: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN REGULAR SESSION: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Fitz Gives Keynote Address To 24th Annual Heartwood Forest Council Gathering

Fitz Gives Keynote Address To 24th Annual Heartwood Forest Council Gathering

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

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

Statement Of Tom FitzGerald on Being Nominated

Statement Of Tom FitzGerald on Being Nominated As A Federal Commissioner To The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission

KRC 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

KRC 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

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Final Edition!

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Final Edition!

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

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Twelfth Edition

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Twelfth Edition

ADT Letter Highlights Safety and Health Problems With AT&T Phone Deregulation Bill

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Eleventh Edition

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Eleventh Edition

KRC Comments On Proposed Environmental Assessment for Texas Gas Abandonment Project

KRC Comments On Proposed Environmental Assessment for Texas Gas Abandonment Project

KRC Presents Testimony To House Committee In Opposition To SB 99 Phone Deregulation Bill

KRC Presents Testimony To House Committee In Opposition To SB 99 Phone Deregulation Bill

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

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

SB 99 Ends Public Service Commission Power Over Consumer Complaints In Many Kentucky Cities

SB 99 Ends Public Service Commission Power Over Consumer Complaints In Many Kentucky Cities

Dormant Landlines In Rural Areas May Not Be Able To Reactivate Landline Service Under SB 99

Dormant Landlines In Rural Areas May Not Be Able To Reactivate Landline Service Under SB 99

Reply Memorandum Filed In Bluegrass Pipeline Eminent Domain Case

Reply Memorandum Filed In Bluegrass Pipeline Eminent Domain Case

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Ninth Edition

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Ninth Edition

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

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

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

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

KRC Expresses Concerns With Bill Stripping Public Service Commission of Power To Determine Value Of Acquired Utility Water And Sewer Assets

KRC Expresses Concerns With Bill Stripping Public Service Commission of Power To Determine Value Of Acquired Utility Water And Sewer Assets

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Seventh Edition

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Seventh Edition

Motion Seeks Ruling That Bluegrass Pipeline Lacks Eminent Domain Power

Motion Seeks Ruling That Bluegrass Pipeline Lacks Eminent Domain Power

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Sixth Edition!

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Sixth Edition!

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

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

Why AT&T's SB 99 Is Bad For Small Towns And Rural Areas of Kentucky

Why AT&T's SB 99 Is Bad For Small Towns And Rural Areas of Kentucky

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

Numbers Show Lack of Need For Senate Bill 1

Numbers Show Lack of Need For Senate Bill 1

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Fourth Edition!

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Fourth Edition!

KRC Opposes Bill That Would Lift Nuclear Plant Moratorium

KRC Opposes Bill That Would Lift Nuclear Plant Moratorium

KRC Testifies Against New AT&T Phone Deregulation Bill

KRC Testifies Against New AT&T Phone Deregulation Bill

KRC Testimony In Opposition To Senate Bill 1

KRC Testimony In Opposition To Senate Bill 1

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Third Edition

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Third Edition

KRC Shares Concerns Regarding SB 1

KRC Shares Concerns Regarding SB 1

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

2014 AT&T Draft Bill Fails To Assure Continued Access To Reliable Basic Phone Service For All Kentuckians

2014 AT&T Draft Bill Fails To Assure Continued Access To Reliable Basic Phone Service For All Kentuckians

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Second Edition!

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Second Edition!

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The First Edition

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The First Edition

Counting Our Blessings

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

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

The 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.

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

First, 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...

Complaint challenges EPA approval of selenium water quality standard for Kentucky

Complaint challenges EPA approval of selenium water quality standard for Kentucky

Complaint Seeks Court Ruling On Whether Bluegrass Pipeline Company LLC Can Condemn Property For Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline

Complaint Seeks Court Ruling On Whether Bluegrass Pipeline Company LLC Can Condemn Property For Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline

Reflection on the passing of David Short  

Planning, Zoning and Hazardous Liquids Pipelines

A Conversation On Conservation And Stewardship

A Conversation On Conservation And Stewardship

KRC Comments On Proposed Brownfields Regulations

"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” Voltaire

"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” Voltaire

Opening Memorandum Filed In Appeal Challenging Rejection Of Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition For Lynch and Benham, Kentucky

Opening Memorandum Filed In Appeal Challenging Rejection Of Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition For Lynch and Benham, Kentucky

Karst and the proposed Bluegrass NGL Pipeline

Karst and the proposed Bluegrass NGL Pipeline

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

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

Concerns With Prefiled Bill That Would Broaden NGL Pipeline Condemnation Power

Concerns With Prefiled Bill That Would Broaden NGL Pipeline Condemnation Power

Drakes Creek Holding Limestone Permit Challenged

Drakes Creek Holding Limestone Permit Challenged

KRC Testifies On Bluegrass NGL Pipeline

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

Eminent Domain Explored

Understanding Eminent Domain in Kentucky and how it relates to the Bluegrass Pipeline Project

Marion County Adopts Resolution Opposing Bluegrass NGL Pipeline

SOME BASIC INFORMATION FOR LANDOWNERS ON GRANTING AND RESCINDING SURVEY PERMISSION

SOME BASIC INFORMATION FOR LANDOWNERS ON GRANTING AND RESCINDING SURVEY PERMISSION

Governor Beshear Should Add Regulation of Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Siting, and Condemnation Power of Non-Utility Pipelines, To August 19 Special Session Call

Governor Beshear Should Add Regulation of Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Siting, and Condemnation Power of Non-Utility Pipelines, To August 19 Special Session Call

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

Remembering Alex Talbott  

KRC Calls On Bluegrass Pipeline Partners To Agree To A Comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement

KRC Calls On Bluegrass Pipeline Partners To Agree To A Comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement

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

Debate On Coal With the Bluegrass Institute's Jim Waters and KRC's Director Tom FitzGerald is Now Online

Debate On Coal With the Bluegrass Institute's Jim Waters and KRC's Director Tom FitzGerald is Now Online

Bullitt County Quarry Case Briefed And Awaiting Court Review

Bullitt County Quarry Case Briefed And Awaiting Court Review

Some Background On Proposed Bluegrass Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Seventh Edition

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Seventh Edition

2013 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

2013 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

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

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

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Final Edition

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

Is AT&T's Wireless Home Service Comparable To Existing Wireline Basic Phone Service?

Is AT&T's Wireless Home Service Comparable To Existing Wireline Basic Phone Service?

SB 88 NOT LIKELY TO MATERIALLY INCREASE AT&T’s CAPITAL SPENDING IN KENTUCKY ABOVE PAST LEVELS

SB 88 NOT LIKELY TO MATERIALLY INCREASE AT&T’s CAPITAL SPENDING IN KENTUCKY ABOVE PAST LEVELS

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Sixth Edition

KRC Joins State Chamber, Kentucky Association of Manufacturers In Expressing Concern Over HB 211

KRC Joins State Chamber, Kentucky Association of Manufacturers In Expressing Concern Over HB 211

Bill Exempting Strip Mining In Streams From Mine Permitting If Done For "Farm Purposes" Could Be Bad For The Environment And Farmers

Bill Exempting Strip Mining In Streams From Mine Permitting If Done For "Farm Purposes" Could Be Bad For The Environment And Farmers

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Fifth Edition

A Closer Look At AT&T's "$14 Billion Investment"

A Closer Look At AT&T's "$14 Billion Investment"

Top Ten Reasons Why AT&Ts SB 88 Is Bad For Kentucky

Top Ten Reasons Why AT&Ts SB 88 Is Bad For Kentucky

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Fourth Edition

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Fourth Edition

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

Council Expresses Concern That Costs Of Wheeling Purchased Power For Aluminum Smelter Not Be Shifted To Remaining Big Rivers Electric Co-operative Ratepayers

Council Expresses Concern That Costs Of Wheeling Purchased Power For Aluminum Smelter Not Be Shifted To Remaining Big Rivers Electric Co-operative Ratepayers

House Bill 165 Would Allow Mining of Noncoal Minerals in Streams Without A Permit If Done For "Farm Purposes"

House Bill 165 Would Allow Mining of Noncoal Minerals in Streams Without A Permit If Done For "Farm Purposes"

SB 88 = Less Reliable, Less Functional Home Phone Service For Rural Kentucky

Unfortunately, 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

KRC Expresses Concern With Bills Allowing Aluminum Smelters To Bypass Their Electric Generation Utility

KRC Expresses Concern With Bills Allowing Aluminum Smelters To Bypass Their Electric Generation Utility

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

2013 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Third Edition

2013 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Third Edition

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Second Edition

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

Will Multiple-Message Electronic Billboards Spread Along Kentucky's Highways?

Will Multiple-Message Electronic Billboards Spread Along Kentucky's Highways

AT&T Proposal To Deregulate Basic Phone Service Could Hurt Rural, Low- and Fixed-Income Kentuckians

AT&T Proposal To Deregulate Basic Phone Service Could Hurt Rural, Low- and Fixed-Income Kentuckians

Council Board Endorses Biomass Campaign Platform

Council Board Endorses Biomass Campaign Platform

AT&T Gearing Up To Seek End To Obligation To Provide Stand-alone Basic Telephone Service

AT&T Gearing Up To Seek End To Obligation To Provide Stand-alone Basic Telephone Service

AT&T Again Seeks To End Obligation To Provide Stand-Alone Basic Phone Service To Kentucky Customers

AT&T Again Seeks To End Obligation To Provide Stand-Alone Basic Phone Service To Kentucky Customers

House Bill 110 Would Disallow Use Of Fuel Adjustment Clause For Baseload Gas-Fired Electric Utilities; Creating Inequities And Higher Costs For Ratepayers

House Bill 110 Would Disallow Use Of Fuel Adjustment Clause For Baseload Gas-Fired Electric Utilities; Creating Inequities And Higher Costs For Ratepayers

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The First Edition

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The First Edition

A Look Back at KRC's Work During 2012

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Prefiled Edition

2013 General Assembly Regular Session: The Prefiled Edition

Council Opposes Reissuance of Permit To "Landfarm" Petroleum-Contaminated Soils

Council Opposes Reissuance of Permit To "Landfarm" Petroleum-Contaminated Soils

KRC Signs Joint Letter With 94 Other Organizations In Seeking Reforms In Federal Water Resources Development Act

KRC Signs Joint Letter With 94 Other Organizations In Seeking Reforms In Federal Water Resources Development Act

KRC Director Gives Commencement Address To 1st Green Institute Class

KRC Director Gives Commencement Address To 1st Green Institute Class

KRC Comments on Proposed Changes To Noncoal Permitting Regulations

KRC Comments on Proposed Changes To Noncoal Permitting Regulations

KRC Comments On Proposed Changes to Kentucky Airport Zoning Commission Regulations

KRC Comments On Proposed Changes to Kentucky Airport Zoning Commission Regulations

Winnie Hepler Honored By Kentucky Heartwood

Winnie Hepler Honored By Kentucky Heartwood

Kentucky's Proposed Hunting Amendment : A Solution In Search Of A Problem

Kentucky's Proposed Hunting Amendment : A Solution In Search Of A Problem

KRC Comments on Proposed Changes to Heritage Land Conservation Board Regulations

KRC Comments on Proposed Changes to State Water Quality Standards

KRC Comments on Proposed Changes to State Water Quality Standards

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

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

Aloma Dew Is First Recipient of Sue Anne Salmon Community Advocacy Award

Aloma Dew Is First Recipient of Sue Anne Salmon Community Advocacy Award

KRC Director Participates on Panel on Coal Mine Reclamation Bonding

KRC Director Participates on Panel on Coal Mine Reclamation Bonding

KRC Comments On Proposed Division of Water Regulations

Remembering the "Keeper of the Mountains"

KRC Comments On Changes To Pesticide Application Regulations

KRC Comments On Changes To Pesticide Application Regulations

Zoning Approval For Western Kentucky Strip Mine Is Challenged

Zoning Approval For Western Kentucky Strip Mine Is Challenged

The Council Comments On Revisions To Public Service Commission Regulations

The Council Comments On Revisions To Public Service Commission Regulations

KRC Declines Surface Mining Award

Kentucky Heartwood and KRC comment on proposed Consent Decree affecting Daniel Boone National Forest

Kentucky Heartwood and KRC comment on proposed Consent Decree affecting Daniel Boone National Forest

Changes In Bonding Regulations Criticized As Inadequate To Protect Rights of Landowners

Changes In Bonding Regulations Criticized As Inadequate To Protect Rights of Landowners

Comments On Changes To Air Quality Regulations

Council Voices Concerns Regarding Louisville Landmarks Ordinance Amendments

Council Voices Concerns Regarding Louisville Landmarks Ordinance Amendments

KRC Comments Support EPA's Proposed Veto of 36 Coal Mining Discharge Permits

KRC Comments Support EPA's Proposed Veto of 36 Coal Mining Discharge Permits

2012: KRC Recaps "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" from the General Assembly Regular Session

2012: KRC Recaps "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" from the General Assembly Regular Session

KRC Comments on Proposed Mining Regulation Amendment

KRC Comments on Proposed Mining Regulation Amendment

KRC Summarizes 2012 Session Bills Of Interest To State Bar

KRC Summarizes 2012 Session Bills Of Interest To State Bar

Council comments on proposal to eliminate fueling station vapor controls for Jefferson County

Council comments on proposal to eliminate fueling station vapor controls for Jefferson County

Comments Submitted on Revisions to State Air Quality Regulations for PM2.5

“any 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...

Council Director Receives 2012 Brennan Haly Award From Department of Political Science at U of L.

KRC Comments On Proposed Quarry In Simpson County

KRC Comments On Proposed Quarry In Simpson County

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Final Edition

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Final Edition

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Thirteenth Edition

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Thirteenth Edition

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Twelfth Edition

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Twelfth Edition

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

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Eleventh Edition

Speaker Stumbo Expresses Opposition to AT&T Phone Deregulation Bill

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

Senate Bill 12 to become new vehicle for AT&T phone deregulation bill

Senate Bill 12 to become new vehicle for AT&T phone deregulation bill

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

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

Council seeks and receives assurances from Louisville Regional Airport Authority and FAA concerning easements at Bowman Field

Council seeks and receives assurances from Louisville Regional Airport Authority and FAA concerning easements at Bowman Field

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.

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

SB 135: Why is Deregulating Basic Telephone Service Bad for Kentucky's Phone Customers?

SB 135: Why is Deregulating Basic Telephone Service Bad for Kentucky's Phone Customers?

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Seventh Edition

KRC Supports Bill Requiring Reporting of Telephone Outages

KRC Supports Bill Requiring Reporting of Telephone Outages

SB 135 May Adversely Affect Basic Phone Service

Council Expresses Concern That SB 135 May Adversely Affect Basic Phone Service For Rural, Low- and Fixed- Income Kentuckians

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

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

Council voices concerns with Billboard Bill

Council voices concerns with Billboard Bill

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Fifth Edition

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Fifth Edition

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

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

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

Bills We're Tracking: the Fourth Legislative Update

Bills We're Tracking: the Fourth Legislative Update

2012 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Third Edition

2012 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Third Edition

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Second Edition

2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Second Edition

2012 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The First Edition

2012 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The First Edition

The Solar Industry in Kentucky: A Brief Review

The 2012 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The Prefiled Edition

The 2012 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The Prefiled Edition

KRC Director resigns two Beshear Administration board appointments

KRC Director resigns two Beshear Administration board appointments

Council Comments On Proposed Air Permit For Arkema, Inc.'s Calvert City Chemical Plant

Council Comments On Proposed Air Permit For Arkema, Inc.'s Calvert City Chemical Plant

Settlement In LG&E/KU Environmental Surcharge Case Includes New Funds For Low-Income Ratepayer Assistance

Settlement In LG&E/KU Environmental Surcharge Case Includes New Funds For Low-Income Ratepayer Assistance

KRC Comments on proposed state surface mining regulation changes

KRC Comments on proposed state surface mining regulation changes

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

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

KRC Comments on Solvent Replacement At Rubbertown Plant

KRC Comments on Proposed Trimble County Coal Ash Landfill

KRC Comments on Proposed Trimble County Coal Ash Landfill

Discretionary Review Sought In Kentucky-American Water case

Discretionary Review Sought In Kentucky-American Water case

New Zeon Class Settlement Approved

New Zeon Class Settlement Approved

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

KRC Comments On Proposed Sandhill Crane Hunt Regulation

KRC Comments On Proposed Sandhill Crane Hunt Regulation

KRC Testimony In Opposition To Sandhill Crane Hunt

KRC Testimony In Opposition To Sandhill Crane Hunt

Joint Letter Requests Postponement Of Sandhill Crane Hunt Approval

Improvements Sought In Permit Renewal For Hog Feedlot Operation

Improvements Sought In Permit Renewal For Hog Feedlot Operation

KRC Opposes Proposal To Hunt Sandhill Cranes in Kentucky

In Honor And Memory Of A Stalwart Friend, Sally Brown

Court Asked To Narrow Scope of Zeon Class Action Settlement

Court Asked To Narrow Scope of Zeon Class Action Settlement

Water Quality Certification for Paducah Dock Project Challenged

Water Quality Certification for Paducah Dock Project Challenged

KRC Joins 64 Other Conservation Organizations In Joint Comments Opposing Reissuance Of Nationwide Fill Permits

KRC Joins 64 Other Conservation Organizations In Joint Comments Opposing Reissuance Of Nationwide Fill Permits

Class Action Settlement in Zeon Case Opposed by Eboni Cochran of REACT

Class Action Settlement in Zeon Case Opposed by Eboni Cochran of REACT

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

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

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

KRC Testimony on House Bill 1

KRC Comments On Amendments To Water Antidegradaton Rule

KRC Comments On Amendments To Water Antidegradaton Rule

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

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

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

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

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

KRC Opposes Giving Private Pipeline Company Power To Condemn Lands For Private Use

KRC Opposes Giving Private Pipeline Company Power To Condemn Lands For Private Use

Bill Creating Legal Framework For Management of Carbon Sequestration Passes House Committee

Bill Creating Legal Framework For Management of Carbon Sequestration Passes House Committee

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

KRC Expresses Concerns Regarding House Bill 1 Creating a "Right" To Hunt, Fish and Harvest Wildlife

KRC Expresses Concerns Regarding House Bill 1 Creating a "Right" To Hunt, Fish and Harvest Wildlife

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

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

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

Council asks U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to re-notice project that would take over 500 of a federally-designated endangered mussel species

Council asks U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to re-notice project that would take over 500 of a federally-designated endangered mussel species

KRC Requests Denial of Water Quality Certification in Dock Project

KRC Requests Denial of Water Quality Certification in Dock Project

Complaint Seeks PSC Review of Cell Tower Siting

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

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

2011 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching, Second Edition

2011 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching, Second Edition

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

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

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

Jack and Angene Wilson Named Outstanding Wooster Alums For 2011!

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Sixth Edition

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Sixth Edition

KRC Joins In Comments Supporting EPA's Guidance On Improving Review of Appalachian Mining Operations Under Clean Water Act.

EPA's Guidance On Improving Review of Appalachian Mining Operations Under Clean Water Act.

KRC Supports Lands Unsuitable Petition 10-2

KRC Supports Lands Unsuitable Petition 10-2

Becoming Better Weavers

Becoming Better Weavers

Kentucky's Energy Crossroads

Kentucky's Energy Crossroads - A conversation at the Faithful Citizenship Luncheon

Office of Surface Mining Agrees

Office of Surface Mining Agrees That Request For Valid Existing Rights Determination in Daniel Boone Forest Does Not Demonstrate Right To Strip Mine 175 Acres In Clay County

KRC Opposes Request for "Valid Existing Rights" Finding That Would Allow Strip Mining Within Daniel Boone National Forest

KRC Opposes Request for "Valid Existing Rights" Finding That Would Allow Strip Mining Within Daniel Boone National Forest

Natural Gas Supply Retail Competition Case Submitted to Public Service Commission

Natural Gas Supply Retail Competition Case Submitted to Public Service Commission

Deb Bledsoe Is 5th Recipient of Stu Butler Memorial Award

KRC Encourages You To Support Project Warm

A CONVERSATION ABOUT ENERGY EFFICIENCY

A CONVERSATION ABOUT ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Rejection of Benham and Lynch Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition Appealed

Rejection of Benham and Lynch Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition Appealed

Watt's In a Name?

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

KRC Presents Comments On Proposed Coal Combustion Waste Rule

KRC Presents Comments On Proposed Coal Combustion Waste Rule

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

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

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

A significant impediment to remining sites where existing conditions are generating significant pollution runoff, is the adoption by EPA of regulations, 15 years after the Rahall Amendment to the Clean Water Act, which completely eviscerated...

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

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

Settlement Approved in LGE/KU Rate Cases Results In Reduction of Rate Increases by 25% From What Had Been Sought

Settlement Approved in LGE/KU Rate Cases Results In Reduction of Rate Increases by 25% From What Had Been Sought

Memorandum Of Understanding Among Mining And Water Agencies Will Implement Fill Minimization Protocol and Reduce The Size and Number of Valley Fills

Memorandum Of Understanding Among Mining And Water Agencies Will Implement Fill Minimization Protocol and Reduce The Size and Number of Valley Fills

KRC Comments on Proposed FY 2011Mine Regulation Performance Agreement

KRC Comments on Proposed FY 2011Mine Regulation Performance Agreement

Planning Commission Denies Request For Gas Station in Belknap Neighborhood

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Public Service Commission Approves Intervention of Metropolitan Housing Coalition in E.On Acquisition Case

Public Service Commission Approves Intervention of Metropolitan Housing Coalition in E.On Acquisition Case

KRC Comments On Scoping For Stream Protection Rule

KRC strongly supports the proposed actions to revise various components of the regulatory program in order to improve protections of streams from the impacts of surface coal mining operations.

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

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

KRC Director Gives Commencement Address To The Neighborhood Institute Class of 2010

KRC Questions Lower Standards For Review of Semipublic Water Treatment Systems

Corps Denies 404 Permit for proposed Scott County Reservoir

Corps Denies 404 Permit for proposed Scott County Reservoir

Agreement In LGE/KU Rate Case Would Lessen Increases Sought In Rates And Charges For Residential Customers

Agreement In LGE/KU Rate Case Would Lessen Increases Sought In Rates And Charges For Residential Customers

2010 General Assembly: KRC submits written testimony on regional wastewater commission bill

2010 General Assembly: KRC submits written testimony on regional wastewater commission bill

Frasure Creek 404 Application in Buckhorn Creek Watershed Withdrawn

Frasure Creek 404 Application in Buckhorn Creek Watershed Withdrawn

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

KRC Voices Concern Over KPDES Hearing Regulation Change

KRC Voices Concern Over KPDES Hearing Regulation Change

The 2010 General Assembly Regular Session: A Session Of Opportunities Missed

The 2010 General Assembly Regular Session: A Session Of Opportunities Missed

EPA Proposes Rule To Regulate Coal Combustion Waste

EPA Proposes Rule To Regulate Coal Combustion Waste

A Conversation With Our Children's Children

2010 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Final Edition

2010 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Final Edition

KRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Water Supplies of Benham and Lynch

KRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Water Supplies of Benham and Lynch

2010 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Thirteenth Edition

2010 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Thirteenth Edition

KRC TESTIMONY ON SENATE BILL 26

KRC TESTIMONY ON SENATE BILL 26

2010 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Twelfth Edition

2010 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Twelfth Edition

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

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Tenth Edition

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Tenth Edition

2010 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Tenth Edition

2010 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Tenth Edition

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Ninth Edition

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Ninth Edition

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

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Seventh Edition

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Seventh Edition

KRC's Analysis of House Bill 221

Constitutional Concerns With Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Bill

Constitutional Concerns With Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Bill

KRC Submits Testimony In Opposition To Billboard Bill SB 133

KRC Submits Testimony In Opposition To Billboard Bill SB 133

KRC Testimony Concerning House Bill 312

KRC Testimony Concerning House Bill 312

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Fifth Edition

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: The Fifth Edition

2010 Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The Fourth Edition

2010 Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: The Fourth Edition

2010 Regular Session: Bills We're Watching - the Third Edition

2010 Regular Session: Bills We're Watching - the Third Edition

KRC Comments on OSMRE Oversight Improvement Initiative

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

2010 Session: Bills We're Watching: Second Edition

2010 Session: Bills We're Watching: Second Edition

Honoring Sue Anne Salmon

2010 Session: Bills We're Watching: First Edition

2010 Session: Bills We're Watching: First Edition

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

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We'll Be Watching: The Pre-filed Edition

2010 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We'll Be Watching: The Pre-filed Edition

2010 Regular Session: Bills We'll Be Watching: The Pre-filed Edition

2010 Regular Session: Bills We'll Be Watching: The Pre-filed Edition

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

Nuclear Power Plant Siting And Permitting Discussed

Nuclear Power Plant Siting And Permitting Discussed

KRC Director gives commencement speech to Neighborhood Institute's graduating class

KRC Director gives commencement speech to Neighborhood Institute's graduating class

KRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Lynch Water Reservoir

KRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Lynch Water Reservoir

KRC requests hearing, and EIS on proposed barge facility in Meade County

KRC requests hearing, and EIS on proposed barge facility in Meade County

Honoring Hugh Archer

KRC Supports E.On Request To PSC For Case On Natural Gas Unbundling

KRC Supports E.On Request To PSC For Case On Natural Gas Unbundling

Court Remands Permits For 9 West Kentucky Confined Hog Feeding Operations

Court Remands Permits For 9 West Kentucky Confined Hog Feeding Operations

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

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

A Tale of Two Cities, Part Deux

Coal forum panelists, fresh from negotiations, say mountaintop-mine policing will get tougher

STAR Program Is Highlighted As A Potential Approach For Reducing Pitttsburgh's Air Toxics Problems

STAR Program Is Highlighted As A Potential Approach For Reducing Pitttsburgh's Air Toxics Problems

Coal Ash Is The Topic At CDC Science Seminar

KRC Comments On Renewal Of Triple M Land Farm Permit

KRC Comments On Renewal Of Triple M Land Farm Permit

Steve Hohmann Wins National AML Award

Fulbright Scholar Reflects Back On Year In China

Art and Activism Discussed At IdeaFestival and OurPlanet Forum

Art and Activism Discussed At IdeaFestival and OurPlanet Forum

Impact of Federal Climate Legislation On Agriculture

Reflections on KRC and the Virginia Environmental Endowment

Reflections on KRC and the Virginia Environmental Endowment

Columbia Gas Rate Case Settlement Approved

Columbia Gas Rate Case Settlement Approved

Notice of Intent to Sue Served Over Pennsylvania Mining Program

Notice of Intent to Sue Served Over Pennsylvania Mining Program

KET Climate Change Bill Program Now Online

PSC Approves Guidelines for Expanding Net Metering Opportunities

PSC Approves Guidelines for Expanding Net Metering Opportunities

Ruling In Kentucky-American Condemnation Cases

Ruling In Kentucky-American Condemnation Cases

KRC Remembers Jeet Gill  Posted: July 20, 2009

KRC Remembers Jeet Gill

A BRIEF REPORT ON KRC ACTIVITIES 2008-2009

A BRIEF REPORT ON KRC ACTIVITIES 2008-2009

Remembering Mason Rudd

Coal Mine General Water Discharge Permit Conditions Tightened

Coal Mine General Water Discharge Permit Conditions Tightened

AARP Granted Full Intervention In Columbia Gas Alternative Rate Design Case

Zeon Class Settlement Rejected As Unfair

Zeon Class Settlement Rejected As Unfair

KRC Comments On Revised Solid Waste Permit Fees

KRC Comments On Revised Solid Waste Permit Fees

KRC Comments On Proposed Revisions to Drinking Water System Regulations

KRC Comments On Proposed Revisions to Drinking Water System Regulations

DuPont And Rohm & Haas Settlements Conditionally Denied

KRC Opposes Strip Mine Above Lynch's Water Supply Intake

KRC Opposes Strip Mine Above Lynch's Water Supply Intake

Assessment of Waters

Assessment of Waters

KRC Comments On Proposed Reissuance Of Coal General Water Discharge Permit

KRC Comments On Proposed Reissuance Of Coal General Water Discharge Permit

"The State of the Environment" Was On The Agenda For The Small Business Environmental Assistance Program Conference

"The State of the Environment" Was On The Agenda For The Small Business Environmental Assistance Program Conference

Objections Lodged To Proposed Zeon Class Action Settlement

Objections Lodged To Proposed Zeon Class Action Settlement

KRC Responds To Obama Administration Proposed Mining Reforms

The Council harbors serious concerns regarding whether the proposed reforms go far enough to assure full implementation both of the Clean Water Act and the Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act of 1977.

KRC Comments On Revisions To Kentucky Water Regulations

KRC Comments On Revisions To Kentucky Water Regulations

KRC Comments on Proposed Frasure Creek Mine

KRC Comments on Proposed Frasure Creek Mine

Rehearing Sought In Condemnation Action

Rehearing Sought In Condemnation Action

Motions Challenge Kentucky-American's Condemnation Powers

Motions Challenge Kentucky-American's Condemnation Powers

Opening Brief Filed In Kentucky-American Water Appeal

The Challenges Ahead In Coal Mining Regulation

The Challenges Ahead In Coal Mining Regulation

3rd Energizing Kentucky Conference Focuses on Kentucky Energy Plan and Role of Educational Institutions in Meeting Energy Challenges

World of Coal Ash Conference Presentation

World of Coal Ash Conference Presentation

UK Professor and author Dr. Ron Eller keynotes East Kentucky Leadership Conference

UK Professor and author Dr. Ron Eller keynotes East Kentucky Leadership Conference

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

Kentucky is blessed with natural resources that are the envy of other states-more flowing stream miles than any other state save Alaska; a mixed mesophytic forest in Appalachia that is among the most diverse ecosystem on the globe...

Louisville native Catherine Shea Jennings pens award-winning essay on "Working Trees: Kentucky's Renewable Future"

Earth Day In The Cumberlands: 2009

Earth Day In The Cumberlands: 2009

A Cautionary Note On Adventure Tourism

A Cautionary Note On Adventure Tourism

Valuing Kentucky's Natural Resources

Objections Filed To Rubbertown Settlements

Objections Filed To Rubbertown Settlements

KRC Director Appointed To Center For Renewable Energy Research

KRC Director Appointed To Center For Renewable Energy Research

The Challenges Ahead

Current Issues In The Regulation of Coal Ash

Current Issues In The Regulation of Coal Ash

Edmonson Stone Quarry Appeal Resolved

Edmonson Stone Quarry Appeal Resolved

Adventure Tourism Part Deux: KRC Critical Of Horse Council Letter to Fish and Wildlife Over Cranks Creek Trail Ride

Adventure Tourism Part Deux: KRC Critical Of Horse Council Letter to Fish and Wildlife Over Cranks Creek Trail Ride

timony On Need To Better Control "Beneficial Reuse" of Coal Combustion Wastes

KRC Supplements Testimony On Need To Better Control "Beneficial Reuse" of Coal Combustion Wastes And For Federal Regulatory Framework For Managing Coal Combustion Ash

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

EPA Expresses Concerns Over Issuance of Authorizations For Dumping Mine Fill Material in Headwater Streams.

EPA Expresses Concerns Over Issuance of Authorizations For Dumping Mine Fill Material in Headwater Streams.

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

2009 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching / Fifth Edition

KRC Opposes Beshear Administration's Energy Bill

KRC Opposes Beshear Administration's Energy Bill

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

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

House Education Committee Approves Bill Requiring Consideration of Air Quality In Limiting Outdoor School Sports Activities

House Education Committee Approves Bill Requiring Consideration of Air Quality In Limiting Outdoor School Sports Activities

Updated Transition Paper On Surface Mining Includes Discussion of Rahall Remining Amendment

Updated Transition Paper On Surface Mining Includes Discussion of Rahall Remining Amendment

KRC Supports Electronic Waste Manufacturer Responsibility Bill

KRC Supports Electronic Waste Manufacturer Responsibility Bill

2009 General Assembly: KRC Opposes Bill Excusing Nuclear Industry From Responsibility For Disposal of High-Level Rad Wastes

KRC believes that prior to development of any new nuclear power plants, a strategy for permanent disposal of the wastes should be in place. The indefinite storage of high-level wastes at nuclear plants in pools and dry cask storage presents...

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

KRC Director Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee On Need For Comprehensive Regulation Of Coal Combustion Wastes

KRC Director Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee On Need For Comprehensive Regulation Of Coal Combustion Wastes

2009 Regular Session: Bills We're Watching, 2nd Edition

2009 Regular Session: Bills We're Watching, 2nd Edition

DuPont Accepts Court Modification of Settlement In Rubbertown Emissions Case

MARGARET MEAD WAS RIGHT!

MARGARET MEAD WAS RIGHT! A Conversation About Energy, Community, and Justice In A Time Of Great Turmoil

KRC Director Questions "Clean Coal" On State Of Affairs

Metro Parks / Trinity Plan For Tennis Courts Shelved

2009 Session: KRC Statement On H.R. 493

KRC has reviewed H.R. 493, and appreciates Representative Rahall's effort to assure that national minimum standards are put in place to assure that the storage and disposal of coal combustion wastes, including coal ash in impoundments meet design...

2009 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching / Week 1

2009 General Assembly Regular Session: Bills We're Watching / Week 1

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

KRC Develops Background Briefing Paper on Mining Issues For Incoming Administration

KRC Develops Background Briefing Paper on Mining Issues For Incoming Administration

White Paper On A Possible "House Bill 3" Melding Energy Efficiency and Job Creation, Is Posted

White Paper On A Possible "House Bill 3" Melding Energy Efficiency and Job Creation, Is Posted

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

Energy Issues Update Was Topic of November 18 Seminar

Energy Issues Update Was Topic of November 18 Seminar

Remembering Tom Gish

KRC Statement On Beshear Administration Energy Plan

KRC Statement On Beshear Administration Energy Plan

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

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

No one ever calls KRC because they are having a good day they call because they are in crisis because those things most precious to them home, health, family - have been placed in jeopardy.

Heinz Award Video and Acceptance Speech Online

Kentucky American Seeks Dismissal Of Lawsuit Challenging Its Power To Condemn

Kentucky American Seeks Dismissal Of Lawsuit Challenging Its Power To Condemn

KRC Director Receives 14th Heinz Award In Environment Category

Challenge To Kentucky Pioneer Merchant Power Plant Siting Dismissed

Challenge To Kentucky Pioneer Merchant Power Plant Siting Dismissed

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

Supreme Court Review Of Zoning Decision Sought

Gallatin County Zoning

Declaratory Judgment Challenges Kentucky-American Water Company's Power To Condemn Land For Pipeline Project

Declaratory Judgment Challenges Kentucky-American Water Company's Power To Condemn Land For Pipeline Project

KRC Mourns The Death, And Celebrates The Life, Of KRC Board Member John Cleveland

6th Circuit Decision in Antidegradation Case Rejects In Part EPA's Approval of Kentucky Water Quality Rules

6th Circuit Decision in Antidegradation Case Rejects In Part EPA's Approval of Kentucky Water Quality Rules

Sue Anne Salmon Honored For Her Many Years of Working For Justice

Sue Anne Salmon Honored For Her Many Years of Working For Justice

KRC Director Honored By UK Law Alumni Association

KRC Director Honored By UK Law Alumni Association

KRC Asks KHSAA To Revise Protocols For Outdoor Sports Activity

KRC Asks KHSAA To Revise Protocols For Outdoor Sports Activity

Constitutionality of Metro Parks - Trinity Tennis Court Agreement Questioned

Constitutionality of Metro Parks - Trinity Tennis Court Agreement Questioned

Power Plant Siting Board Deference To Local Zoning At Issue

Power Plant Siting Board Deference To Local Zoning At Issue

KRC Comments On Draft EIS for National "Biolab"

The DEIS is insufficient under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in that it fails to consider the environmental, health and public safety impacts of a release of each pathogen it proposes to study at the facility, as well as a concurrent..

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

Concerned About Strip Mining Abuses? Here Are Some Things You Can Do!

Concerned About Strip Mining Abuses? Here Are Some Things You Can Do!

Intervention In Net Metering Case Approved

CAWS Appeals PSC Order Granting Kentucky-American Certificate For New Water Treatment Plant and Pipeline

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KRC Director Among Those Honored By UK College of Law

KRC Director Speaks At "Energizing Kentucky" Conference

KRC Director Speaks At "Energizing Kentucky" Conference

Hazardous Waste Regulations Modified To Address KRC Concerns

Hazardous Waste Regulations Modified To Address KRC Concerns

KRC Comments on Public Notice Rules For Water Quality Certifications

LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP FROM THE 2008 REGULAR SESSION

LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP FROM THE 2008 REGULAR SESSION

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Final

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Final

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Thirteen ? 1,030 Bills, 505 Resolutions, only 2 Legislative Days To Go!

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

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Eleven ? 1,030 Bills, 437 Resolutions, only 9 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

KRC and Citizens Coal Council Challenge OSM Rule Weakening Permit Block Sanction Against Mining Law Violators

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Ten ? 1,030 Bills, 410 Resolutions, only 14 Legislative Days To Go!

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

Amended HB 233 Protects Recycling Industry From Plastics Miscoding

Bill To Lift Nuclear Power Plant Construction Ban Opposed

Bill To Lift Nuclear Power Plant Construction Ban Opposed

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

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

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

Reflections On The Passing Of Two Colleagues

2008 Regular Session: Bills We're Watching: Week Eight

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 House Leaders To Oppose Cutting Public Trees For Billboard Visibility

Alternative Language On HB 233 Encourages Manufacturers to Design Containers With Recycling In Mind

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!

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

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 Five - 635 Bills, 220 Resolutions, 37 Legislative Days To Go!

MSD Variance Approving Relocation of Beargrass Creek on River Metals Property Is Remanded

MSD Variance Approving Relocation of Beargrass Creek on River Metals Property Is Remanded

2008 Session: KRC Opposes Cuts in Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Fund

2008 Session: KRC Opposes Cuts in Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Fund

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Four - 574 Bills, 186 Resolutions, 42 Legislative Days To Go!

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Four - 574 Bills, 186 Resolutions, 42 Legislative Days To Go!

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Three

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Three

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Two, 426 Bills, 106 Resolutions And Counting

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week Two, 426 Bills, 106 Resolutions And Counting

KRC Endorses Fine Particulate Task Force Report

A Conversation With The Sierra Club At Activist Weekend

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week One, 355 Bills, 60 Resolutions

2008 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching: Week One, 355 Bills, 60 Resolutions

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

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

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

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

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

Graduation Address to Fall 2007 Neighborhood Institute Graduates

Graduation Address to Fall 2007 Neighborhood Institute Graduates

AGREED ORDER ENTERED IN CHALLENGE TO DOE WATER DISCHARGE PERMIT FOR PADUCAH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT

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

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

What Utilities Can Do To Advance Energy Efficiency in Kentucky

What Utilities Can Do To Advance Energy Efficiency in Kentucky

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

Skewed Composition Of Legislative Panel on Climate Change Criticized

Skewed Composition Of Legislative Panel on Climate Change Criticized

Draft Plan For Center For Renewable Energy Flawed

Draft Plan For Center For Renewable Energy Flawed

Weakening of Stream Buffer Zone Rules Opposed

Weakening of Stream Buffer Zone Rules Opposed

Floodplain Variance Allowing Beargrass Creek Relocation Is Challenged

Floodplain Variance Allowing Beargrass Creek Relocation Is Challenged

Carbon Constraints and the Future of Coal

Carbon Constraints and the Future of Coal

LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP FROM THE 2007 REGULAR AND SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION

LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP FROM THE 2007 REGULAR AND SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION

Class Action Settlement In ZEON Chemical Air Emissions Case Unfair, Unreasonable, Unconscionable

Class Action Settlement In ZEON Chemical Air Emissions Case Unfair, Unreasonable, Unconscionable

Upcoming KRC Events and Presentations

Upcoming KRC Events and Presentations

Appeal Filed On Cabinet Order Upholding Issuance of Permits For Confined Hog Operations In Fulton, Carlisle and Hickman Counties

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

Kentucky Post Publishes KRC Testimony on Energy Policy

State Air NESHAP Regulations Amended To Address Enforceability Concern

State Air NESHAP Regulations Amended To Address Enforceability Concern

KRC Testimony Concerning House Energy Bill

KRC Testimony Concerning House Energy Bill

KRC Testifies Before Special Subcommittee On Energy

KRC Testifies Before Special Subcommittee On Energy

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

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

Excerpts from "Beyond Time"

Excerpts from "Beyond Time"

Hazel King Remembered

Benson Valley Landfill Expansion Comments

Benson Valley Landfill Expansion Comments

Special Session Should Be About More Than Peabody

Special Session Should Be About More Than Peabody

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

Concerning Senate Bill 1

Concerning Senate Bill 1

2007 General Assembly: KRC Testimony On Senate Bill 1

2007 General Assembly: KRC Testimony On Senate Bill 1

KRC Recommends Withdrawal of Proposed Air Toxics Regulation Package

KRC Recommends Withdrawal of Proposed Air Toxics Regulation Package

KRC's Testimony Before House A&R Committee On Climate Change and Coal-To-Liquids

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

KRC Recommends Withdrawing State Air Toxics Reg Package And Convening Stakeholder Meetings

2007 Session: Grant Agreements Show There Is No Need For Special Session

2007 Session: Grant Agreements Show There Is No Need For Special Session

Proposed National Rules On Coal Ash Disposal At Coal Mines Are Subject Of Comments

Proposed National Rules On Coal Ash Disposal At Coal Mines Are Subject Of Comments

Everything Old Is New Again

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

KRC Comments on Scoping for Kentucky Biolab

KRC Comments on Scoping for Kentucky Biolab

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

Lynch Residents Speak Out Against Proposed Mine Beneath City Water Reservoir

Lynch Residents Speak Out Against Proposed Mine Beneath City Water Reservoir

KRC Opposes Coal Mining Beneath City of Lynch Water Reservoir

KRC Opposes Coal Mining Beneath City of Lynch Water Reservoir

Winnie Hepler Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From EQC

Winnie Hepler Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From EQC

KRC Staff News

KRC Staff News: Emily Criscillis, Liz Edmondson, Randy Strobo, join KRC for summer 2007

KRC Suggests Revisions to Board of Land Appeals Procedural Rules Proposal

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

The Passing Of A Friend

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

KRC Director Speaks At Earth Days In The Cumberlands

KRC Director Speaks At Earth Days In The Cumberlands

KRC Comments On Proposed Rule On Coal Refuse Sites Remining

KRC Comments On Proposed Rule On Coal Refuse Sites Remining

2007 General Assembly: Final Update

2007 General Assembly: Final Update

Circuit Court Decision Assures Cell Tower Review In All Counties

Circuit Court Decision Assures Cell Tower Review In All Counties

KRC Opposes STAR Change That Weakens Worker Protection From Toxics Exposure

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

Update #6: Bills We're Tracking During the 2006 General Assembly Regular Session

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

SB 155: Can't See The Forest For The ..... Billboards?

SB 155: Can't See The Forest For The ..... Billboards?

Memo Further Explains KRC's Concern That House Bill 543 Would Impair Lessors Rights Under Gas Lease Agreements

KRC Opposes Abridging Public Rights In OrderTo Attract Gasification Plant

KRC Opposes Abridging Public Rights In Order To Attract Gasification Plant

KRC Comments on Rewrite of State Hazardous Waste Regulations

KRC Comments on Rewrite of State Hazardous Waste Regulations

2007 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Tracking: Update #5 (Complete Through March 2, 2007)

2007 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Tracking: Update #5 (Complete Through March 2, 2007)

KRC Comments on Administrative Hearing Reg Revisions

KRC Comments on Administrative Hearing Reg Revisions

House Bill 543 Bad News For Gas Lessors

House Bill 543 Bad News For Gas Lessors

2007 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Tracking: Update #4

2007 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Tracking: Update #4

Alternative Ratesetting Bill for Gas Utilities To Be Studied

Alternative Ratesetting Bill for Gas Utilities To Be Studied

SB 155: Destroying Public Trees For Billboard Visibility

SB 155: Destroying Public Trees For Billboard Visibility

Proposed Limestone Quarry Drainage Into Mammoth Cave Basin Opposed

Revised House Bill 5 Broadens Incentives for Renewable Energy Providers

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

KRC Voices Concerns With Natural Gas Utility Alternative Ratesetting Bill

2007 Legislative Update #2: Bills We're Tracking

2007 Legislative Update #2: Bills We're Tracking

2007 Legislative Update #1: Bills We're Tracking

2007 Legislative Update #1: Bills We're Tracking

KRC Comments on Drinking Water Rule Changes

KRC Comments on Drinking Water Rule Changes

OSM Rules Weakening Permit Blocks For Outlaw Mining Companies Is Opposed

OSM Rules Weakening Permit Blocks For Outlaw Mining Companies Is Opposed

KRC Argues "Business Case" for Energy Efficiency At Utilities And Energy Efficiency Conference

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

Reissuance of Nationwide Permit Allowing Filling Of Headwater Streams And Wetlands By Coal Mining Operations Is Opposed

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

Comments on Glasgow Landfill Water Discharge Permit

Comments on Glasgow Landfill Water Discharge Permit

Broader monitoring and limits sought for wastewater discharge into Lake Cumberland

Broader monitoring and limits sought for wastewater discharge into Lake Cumberland

KRC Receives 2006 Clearing The Air Award From Lung Association

KRC Receives 2006 Clearing The Air Award From Lung Association

Reflections on The Life And Work of Earl Wilson

Reflections on The Life And Work of Earl Wilson

Fulton County Approves Ordinance Regulating Confined Hog Operations

Fulton County Approves Ordinance Regulating Confined Hog Operations

KIPDA Plan To Nix Transit Projects In Metro Area Criticized

KIPDA Plan To Nix Transit Projects In Metro Area Criticized

Louisville Forum Panel Discussion Focuses On Mining

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

Floodplain Regulation Change Questioned

Water Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Challenged

Water Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Challenged

EPA Advisory Committee Recommends Tightening 8-Hour Ozone Standard

EPA Advisory Committee Recommends Tightening 8-Hour Ozone Standard

KRC Recommends Denial of Wetlands Permit For Renaissance Zone Project

The applicant(s) propose to discharge some 110,000 cubic yards of fill material obtained from on and off-site sources into 18,63 acres of forested wetlands, 1.79 acres of emergent wetlands, and .64 acres of scrub/shrub wetlands, and to additionally..

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

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

Tighter Limits On Mercury Emissions From Lamp Plant Urged

CEMEX Asked To Provide More Data On Proposed Use of Tires And Sludge For Cement Kiln Fuel

CEMEX Asked To Provide More Data On Proposed Use of Tires And Sludge For Cement Kiln Fuel

Conditions Added to Pinehurst Rezoning Approval To Provide Notice, Protection To Residential Neighbors

Vehicle Testing Case Argued Before 6th Circuit Court of Appeals

Management System Needed To Track MSD's Air Permit Compliance Obligations

Management System Needed To Track MSD's Air Permit Compliance Obligations

KRC Asks For Stricter Limits On Water Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Facility

KRC Asks For Stricter Limits On Water Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Facility

KRC and Mountain Watershed Ass'n. Oppose Pennsylvania Coal Mine Blasting Rule Changes

KRC and Mountain Watershed Ass'n. Oppose Pennsylvania Coal Mine Blasting Rule Changes

KRC Proposes Enhancements In Public Notice

KRC Proposes Enhancements In Public Notice And Input In Louisville's STAR Air Toxics Program

EPA's Water Transfer Rule Opposed

EPA's Water Transfer Rule Opposed

PSC Order In Cell Tower Case Appealed

PSC Order In Cell Tower Case Appealed

EPA Enforcement Threatened By Closure of Technical Libraries

KRC Statement Responds To ATSDR Rubbertown Health Consultation

KRC Statement Responds To ATSDR Rubbertown Health Consultation

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

The acquisition of sites for the Jefferson County Public Schools shall be in accordance with the district's long-range building program. Such sites shall be submitted to the Louisville Metro Planning Commission for information and discussion after co

Issuance of Permits For Industrial-Scale Hog Feeding Operations Challenged

Issuance of Permits For Industrial-Scale Hog Feeding Operations Challenged

Irish Hill Lawsuit On Slaughtering Plant Resolved

Use of National Forest Road for Coal Haulage Opposed

Use of National Forest Road for Coal Haulage Opposed

Rehearing Sought On Cell Tower Siting Case

Rehearing Sought On Cell Tower Siting Case

Increased Ambient Monitoring Recommended In Comments On TMDL For Bayou de Chien

Increased Ambient Monitoring Recommended In Comments On TMDL For Bayou de Chien

KRC Comments On Proposed Renewal of DOE Landfill Permit

KRC Comments On Proposed Renewal of DOE Landfill Permit

Meeting 8-Hour Ozone Standard Is A Step Towards Healthy Air in Louisville, But Not An Endpoint

Meeting 8-Hour Ozone Standard Is A Step Towards Healthy Air in Louisville, But Not An Endpoint

KRC Comments On Proposed Hazwaste Permit For Open Burn Treatment of Reactive Wastes

KRC Comments On Proposed Hazwaste Permit For Open Burn Treatment of Reactive Wastes

No Profile In Courage

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

EPA's Nondiscrimination Regulations Apply to All Kentucky Permitting Actions

EPA's Nondiscrimination Regulations Apply to All Kentucky Permitting Actions

2006 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: A Summary of KRC's Legislative Activity

2006 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: A Summary of KRC's Legislative Activity

KRC Asks State To Reconsider Proposed Hazwaste Reg Changes

KRC Asks State To Reconsider Proposed Hazwaste Reg Changes

EPA Asked To Review Outsourcing Of Air Permit Reviews By Kentucky

EPA Asked To Review Outsourcing Of Air Permit Reviews By Kentucky

KRC Comments On Draft Revisions to STAR Program Rules

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

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

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

PSC Ruling Interpreting Cell Tower Law Could Affect Many Communities

PSC Ruling Interpreting Cell Tower Law Could Affect Many Communities

Transportation Cabinet Denial Of Public Access To Permit Applications Challenged

Transportation Cabinet Denial Of Public Access To Permit Applications Challenged

Cabinet Urged To Require Co-Permitting and Better Controls on 9 Proposed Confined Hog Feeding Operations

Cabinet Urged To Require Co-Permitting and Better Controls on 9 Proposed Confined Hog Feeding Operations

Creating Demand For Renewable Power

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

Citizen's Coal Council and KRC Challenge to EPA's Remining and Western Alkaline Mining Rules Rejected By Divided Sixth Circuit Panel

KRC Testifies In Opposition To Pilot Project For Removing Right-of-Way Trees For Billboard Visibility

KRC Testifies In Opposition To Pilot Project For Removing Right-of-Way Trees For Billboard Visibility

KRC Suggests Strengthening Louisville Air Toxics Program

KRC Suggests Strengthening Louisville Air Toxics Program

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

Stack Testing & Lower Mercury Limits Suggested For Versailles Lighting Plant

Stack Testing & Lower Mercury Limits Suggested For Versailles Lighting Plant

Stack Testing & Lower limitsBetter Controls On Mercury Proposed For Versailles Lighting Plant

Stack Testing & Lower limitsBetter Controls On Mercury Proposed For Versailles Lighting Plant

Concerns Raised Regarding Proposed Hart County Quarry

National Ambient Air Quality Standards

National Ambient Air Quality Standards

A 1/2 Shoe Session: The 2006 Regular Legislative Session Wrap-Up

A 1/2 Shoe Session: The 2006 Regular Legislative Session Wrap-Up

PSC APPROVES TRANSMISSION LINE THROUGH DANIEL BOONE FOREST IN ROWAN COUNTY

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

2006 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching Update #16: Complete through 4-06-06

2006 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching - 15th Legislative Update, Complete Through March 31, 2006

2006 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching - 15th Legislative Update, Complete Through March 31, 2006

KRC Challenges Landfill Permit At DOE Plant In Paducah

KRC Challenges Landfill Permit At DOE Plant In Paducah

CLEARING THE AIR ON TELEPHONE DEREGULATION

CLEARING THE AIR ON TELEPHONE DEREGULATION

2006 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching

2006 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Watching

KRC TESTIFIES IN OPPOSITION TO PHONE DEREGULATION BILL

KRC TESTIFIES IN OPPOSITION TO PHONE DEREGULATION BILL

TELEPHONE DEREGULATION BILL IS BAD NEWS FOR THE AVERAGE CONSUMER

TELEPHONE DEREGULATION BILL IS BAD NEWS FOR THE AVERAGE CONSUMER

Legislative Update #13 - Complete Through March 17