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.
Continue readingAfter surveying hundreds of acres Kentucky Heartwood found that the Forest Service marked and sold an estimated 13,163 more trees than what was approved in the 2017 project decision.
Continue readingKentucky Resources Council signed on with 79 other organizations to request from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) an extension of all commenting periods and postponement of public hearings amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue readingWe pause in remembrance of Marty Solomon, friend and advisor to the Council.
Continue readingClark Circuit Court Affirms Board of Adjustment Decision That Scrap Facility Expanded Impermissibly
Continue readingKRC comments on the request by the Nucor Corporation for Section 404 Permit for their proposed Brandenburg, Kentucky steel plate mill.
Continue readingKRC represents Powell County citizens in challenging the issuance of a "less-than-one-acre" construction and demolition debris (CDD) landfill issued by the Energy and Environment Cabinet to Blaze Enterprises LLC.
Continue readingGovernor Bevin and Transportation Cabinet Secretary Thomas announced that the proposed I-65 / I-71 Regional Connector Planning Study will no longer consider crossing through property owned by the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.
Continue readingKRC Joins Kentucky Heartwood In Comments On the Pine Creek Forest Reforestation Project
Continue readingKRC comments on proposed revisions to Kentucky's oil and gas regulations. The Oil and Gas Workgroup,(KRC is a member) continues to develop consensus improvements in the regulation of the environmental impacts of oil and gas development in Kentucky.
Continue readingIn April 2019, LG&E, a utility company based in Louisville, Kentucky, announced the construction of a new natural gas transmission pipeline in Bullitt County. This pipeline was explained as necessary in order for LG&E to meet the growth in the area.
Continue readingA petition to designate the historic districts within the cities of Benham and Lynch Kentucky and the viewshed from those districts, and the watersheds that provide the water supply for the towns as areas unsuitable for mining has been drafted by KRC
Continue readingKRC is working with the StroboBarkley law firm in the City of Crossgate's challenge to decision of the VA to build a new hospital on Brownsboro Road. The suit raises questions of compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act by the VA.
Continue readingOn April 27, 2001, Secretary James Bickford entered an Order - declaring that 2,364 acres of land within the area north of the Pine Mountain Settlement School as unsuitable for all types of surface coal mining operations.
Continue readingMetropolitan Housing Coalition (MHC) Seeks To Intervene In PSC Case Where LG&E and KU Seek To Reduce Energy Efficiency and Demand Management Programs
Continue readingAllegheny Defense Project, Kentucky Heartwood, and KRC seek rehearing of FERC approval of Kinder-Morgan's Pipeline "Abandonment."
Continue readingSETTLEMENT IN LG&E AND KU RATE CASES PROTECTS VULNERABLE RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS, MODERATES THE AMOUNT AND IMPACT OF RATE INCREASES
Continue readingKRC Provides Supplemental Comments Opposing LG&E Special Waste Landfill
Continue readingAn Alternative To The Star Energy/Heaven Hill Anaerobic Digester Proposal
Continue readingKRC Comments In Opposition To LGE Coal Combustion Waste Landfill
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Biodigester Zoning Revisions
Continue readingThis facility does not fit under the definition of a non-accessory alternative energy system, which is defined as [a]ny facility or installation such as a windmill, hydroelectric unit or solar collecting or concentrating array.
Continue readingKRC Opposes Location of Four Anaerobic Biodigester Units In Louisville's California Neighborhood
Continue readingAgreed Order Of Judgment Ends Suit Against Boyd County Landfill; Provides Better Control On Future Operations
Continue readingChallenge to EPA Approval of 2013 Kentucky water quality standards for selenium and for preventing eutrophication results in settlement agreement.
Continue readingKRC Testifies In Opposition To AT&T Deregulation Bill
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Amendment to State Merchant Plant Siting Board Rules
Continue readingRenewal of Landfaming Permit to Triple M Land Farms, Inc. Is Challenged
Continue readingKRC Presents Testimony To House Committee In Opposition To SB 99 Phone Deregulation Bill
Continue readingReply Memorandum Filed In Bluegrass Pipeline Eminent Domain Case
Continue readingMotion Seeks Ruling That Bluegrass Pipeline Lacks Eminent Domain Power
Continue readingComplaint challenges EPA approval of selenium water quality standard for Kentucky
Continue readingComplaint Seeks Court Ruling On Whether Bluegrass Pipeline Company LLC Can Condemn Property For Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline
Continue readingOpening Memorandum Filed In Appeal Challenging Rejection Of Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition For Lynch and Benham, Kentucky
Continue readingDrakes Creek Holding Limestone Permit Challenged
Continue readingKRC Calls On Bluegrass Pipeline Partners To Agree To A Comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement
Continue readingBullitt County Quarry Case Briefed And Awaiting Court Review
Continue readingCouncil Expresses Concern That Costs Of Wheeling Purchased Power For Aluminum Smelter Not Be Shifted To Remaining Big Rivers Electric Co-operative Ratepayers
Continue readingWill Multiple-Message Electronic Billboards Spread Along Kentucky's Highways
Continue readingCouncil Opposes Reissuance of Permit To "Landfarm" Petroleum-Contaminated Soils
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Changes to Kentucky Airport Zoning Commission Regulations
Continue readingKRC Comments On Changes To Pesticide Application Regulations
Continue readingZoning Approval For Western Kentucky Strip Mine Is Challenged
Continue readingChanges In Bonding Regulations Criticized As Inadequate To Protect Rights of Landowners
Continue readingCouncil comments on proposal to eliminate fueling station vapor controls for Jefferson County
Continue readingCouncil seeks and receives assurances from Louisville Regional Airport Authority and FAA concerning easements at Bowman Field
Continue readingReduction In Nonattainment Area for 1-Hour SO2 Standard In Jefferson County Questioned
Continue readingSettlement In LG&E/KU Environmental Surcharge Case Includes New Funds For Low-Income Ratepayer Assistance
Continue readingKRC Comments on Proposed Trimble County Coal Ash Landfill
Continue readingDiscretionary Review Sought In Kentucky-American Water case
Continue readingKRC Testimony In Opposition To Sandhill Crane Hunt
Continue readingCourt Asked To Narrow Scope of Zeon Class Action Settlement
Continue readingWater Quality Certification for Paducah Dock Project Challenged
Continue readingClass Action Settlement in Zeon Case Opposed by Eboni Cochran of REACT
Continue readingKRC Opposes Giving Private Pipeline Company Power To Condemn Lands For Private Use
Continue readingKRC Requests Denial of Water Quality Certification in Dock Project
Continue readingKRC Supports Lands Unsuitable Petition 10-2
Continue readingOffice 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
Continue readingNatural Gas Supply Retail Competition Case Submitted to Public Service Commission
Continue readingKRC Opposes Request for "Valid Existing Rights" Finding That Would Allow Strip Mining Within Daniel Boone National Forest
Continue readingRejection of Benham and Lynch Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition Appealed
Continue readingPSC Hears Testimony on PPL Acquisition of LG&E and KU; Settlement Offers Additional Help for Low- and Fixed-Income Ratepayers
Continue readingSettlement Approved in LGE/KU Rate Cases Results In Reduction of Rate Increases by 25% From What Had Been Sought
Continue readingPetition Filed To Designate Water Sources for Benham and Lynch Kentucky As Unsuitable For Surface Coal Mining
Continue readingCorps Denies 404 Permit for proposed Scott County Reservoir
Continue readingAgreement In LGE/KU Rate Case Would Lessen Increases Sought In Rates And Charges For Residential Customers
Continue readingFrasure Creek 404 Application in Buckhorn Creek Watershed Withdrawn
Continue readingKRC Voices Concern Over KPDES Hearing Regulation Change
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Water Supplies of Benham and Lynch
Continue readingKRC Submits Testimony In Opposition To Billboard Bill SB 133
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Lynch Water Reservoir
Continue readingKRC requests hearing, and EIS on proposed barge facility in Meade County
Continue readingKRC Supports E.On Request To PSC For Case On Natural Gas Unbundling
Continue readingKRC Comments On Renewal Of Triple M Land Farm Permit
Continue readingColumbia Gas Rate Case Settlement Approved
Continue readingNotice of Intent to Sue Served Over Pennsylvania Mining Program
Continue readingRuling In Kentucky-American Condemnation Cases
Continue readingCoal Mine General Water Discharge Permit Conditions Tightened
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Revisions to Drinking Water System Regulations
Continue readingKRC Opposes Strip Mine Above Lynch's Water Supply Intake
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Reissuance Of Coal General Water Discharge Permit
Continue readingObjections Lodged To Proposed Zeon Class Action Settlement
Continue readingKRC Comments on Proposed Frasure Creek Mine
Continue readingMotions Challenge Kentucky-American's Condemnation Powers
Continue readingObjections Filed To Rubbertown Settlements
Continue readingKRC Director Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee On Need For Comprehensive Regulation Of Coal Combustion Wastes
Continue readingKRC Develops Background Briefing Paper on Mining Issues For Incoming Administration
Continue readingKentucky American Seeks Dismissal Of Lawsuit Challenging Its Power To Condemn
Continue readingChallenge To Kentucky Pioneer Merchant Power Plant Siting Dismissed
Continue readingDeclaratory Judgment Challenges Kentucky-American Water Company's Power To Condemn Land For Pipeline Project
Continue readingMSD Variance Approving Relocation of Beargrass Creek on River Metals Property Is Remanded
Continue readingAGREED ORDER ENTERED IN CHALLENGE TO DOE WATER DISCHARGE PERMIT FOR PADUCAH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT
Continue readingFloodplain Variance Allowing Beargrass Creek Relocation Is Challenged
Continue readingWeakening of Stream Buffer Zone Rules Opposed
Continue readingClass Action Settlement In ZEON Chemical Air Emissions Case Unfair, Unreasonable, Unconscionable
Continue readingBenson Valley Landfill Expansion Comments
Continue readingKRC's Testimony Before House A&R Committee On Climate Change and Coal-To-Liquids
Continue readingLynch Residents Speak Out Against Proposed Mine Beneath City Water Reservoir
Continue readingKRC Opposes Coal Mining Beneath City of Lynch Water Reservoir
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Rule On Coal Refuse Sites Remining
Continue readingKRC Comments on Rewrite of State Hazardous Waste Regulations
Continue readingKRC Opposes Abridging Public Rights In Order To Attract Gasification Plant
Continue readingSB 155: Destroying Public Trees For Billboard Visibility
Continue readingKRC Comments on Drinking Water Rule Changes
Continue readingKRC Argues "Business Case" for Energy Efficiency At Utilities And Energy Efficiency Conference
Continue readingKIPDA Plan To Nix Transit Projects In Metro Area Criticized
Continue readingWater Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Challenged
Continue readingThe 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..
Continue reading6th Circuit Affirms EPA Approval of Northern Ky. Vehicle Program End
Continue readingManagement System Needed To Track MSD's Air Permit Compliance Obligations
Continue readingKRC Statement Responds To ATSDR Rubbertown Health Consultation
Continue readingRehearing Sought On Cell Tower Siting Case
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Hazwaste Permit For Open Burn Treatment of Reactive Wastes
Continue readingKRC Asks State To Reconsider Proposed Hazwaste Reg Changes
Continue readingEPA Asked To Review Outsourcing Of Air Permit Reviews By Kentucky
Continue readingKRC Opposes Weakening Of Recreational Use Protections In Ohio River; Urges Tighter Standards On Mixing Zones
Continue readingPSC Ruling Interpreting Cell Tower Law Could Affect Many Communities
Continue readingCitizen's Coal Council and KRC Challenge to EPA's Remining and Western Alkaline Mining Rules Rejected By Divided Sixth Circuit Panel
Continue readingKRC Suggests Strengthening Louisville Air Toxics Program
Continue readingStack Testing & Lower Mercury Limits Suggested For Versailles Lighting Plant
Continue readingKRC Voices Concerns Over Telephone Deregulation Bill
Continue readingBill To Deregulate Many Local Phone Services Opposed
Continue readingComments on Proposed Oldham County Sewer Capacity Ordinance
Continue readingComments On B&B Oil & Gas Well Proposal In Daniel Boone Forest
Continue readingKRC Asks Corps To Deny Permit To Fill Wetlands For Shopping Mall
Continue readingKRC Asks 6th Circuit Court of Appeals To Stay End of Northern Kentucky I/M Program
Continue readingSupplemental Comments On Integrator Liability
Continue readingHearing Regulation for Storage Tank Claims Finalized
Continue readingKRC Comments On Kramers Lane Groundwater Study
Continue readingPSC Rejects Transmission Line Corridor Through Daniel Boone Forest
Continue readingKRC Proposes Comprehensive Plan For Investigating Radiological Contamination In Martha Oil Field
Continue readingCOMPLAINT IS FILED CHALLENGING WEAKENED CONTROLS ON SWINE FEEDING OPERATIONS IN FULTON COUNTY
Continue readingKRC COMMENTS ON STRATEGIC ENERGY BLUEPRINT
Continue readingFulton County Officials Issue Permit For Confined Hog Operation, Ignoring Public Comment and Applying Unlawfully Adopted Regulations
Continue readingKRC Opposes Weakening Local Ordinances On Confined Hog Feeding Operations
Continue readingKRC Requests More Public Review of MSD Plans To End Combined Sewer Overflows; Urges Caution Concerning Reuse of Lees Lane Superfund Site
Continue readingKRC Opposes Approval Of Revisions To Ozone Pollution Plan In Northern Kentucky
Continue readingKRC ASKS ORSANCO TO TIGHTEN CONTROLS ON DISCHARGES INTO OHIO RIVER FROM CSOS, AND TO LIMIT VARIANCE AND MIXING ZONE AVAILABILITY
Continue readingKRC Opposes Mining Rule Change Weakening Scrutiny Over Changes In Control of Mine Companies
Continue readingEPA approves Kentucky Antidegradation Standard, Groups Sue To Void Rule
Continue readingSpecial Waste Registered-Permit-by Rule Application
Continue readingCoalbed Methane Regulations Are Finalized; State Retains Baseline
Continue readingKRC Opposes Revision To Metro Louisville Ozone Plan: Asks EPA To Disapprove
Continue readingFederal Circuit Rejects Takings Claim In Stearns Case
Continue readingKRC Responds To EPA Petition for Rehearing In Mining Case
Continue readingKRC Requests Audit Of Jefferson County Erosion Control Ordinance
Continue readingEPA sued for failure to finalize rule to protect Kentucky's waters from degradation
Continue readingKRC Opposes Permit To Dam War Fork In Jackson County
Continue readingPSC TRANSMISSION LINE SITING PROCESS NEEDS STANDARDS
Continue readingChanges Made to Proposed Solid Waste Regs In Response To KRC Comments
Continue readingGovernor Restores Reclamation Bond Pool Funds; Averts Threatened KRC Suit
Continue readingKRC SERVES NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUE TO FORCE REIMBURSEMENT OF MINING BOND POOL FUND
Continue readingLandowner Succeeds In Obtaining Groundwater Protections In Pooling Order
Continue readingNon-coal regs need strengthening to protect public & environment
Continue readingKRC Comments Result In State Changes To Landfill Permit
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Solid Waste Reg Changes
Continue readingKRC Files Amicus Brief in Stearns Takings Case
Continue readingState Revises Power Plant Ash Landfill Permit To Address KRC Concerns
Continue readingINTENT TO SUE SERVED ON EPA FOR ITS' FAILURE TO COMPLETE RULE PROTECTING KENTUCKY'S HIGH QUALITY STREAMS
Continue readingOral Arguments Heard In Remining / Western Mine Case
Continue readingBRIEFING COMPLETE IN VEHICLE TESTING CASE
Continue readingOpening Brief Filed In Joint Tenancy - Strip Mining Case
Continue readingAPPEAL FILED IN SOLID WASTE & COAL POWER PLANT CASE
Continue readingBRIEFING COMPLETE IN THOROUGHBRED SITING CHALLENGE
Continue readingKentucky Pioneer Power Plant Case Submitted
Continue readingKRC challenges agreed order between Natural Resources Cabinet and DOE
Continue readingKRC serves Notice of Intent To Sue Kentucky, EPA Over End To Vehicle Testing Program In Jefferson County, Kentucky.
Continue readingOpening Brief Filed In Kentucky Pioneer Power Plant Waste Case
Continue readingKRC Requests OSM To Set Aside State Law Provisions Stripping Protections From New Pine Mountain Trail State Park
Continue readingAshland Independent: Cleaning up the River
Continue readingOSM Proposes to Weaken Stream Protections
Continue readingPUBLIC HEARING RESCHEDULED FOR PROPOSED CLARK COUNTY PLANT
Continue readingCabinet Supports Revocation of Nugent Permit
Continue readingGALLATIN COUNTY RESIDENTS PREVAIL IN PERMIT CHALLENGE
Continue readingCitizens Coal Council and KRC Challenge EPA Rule Relaxing Sediment Controls On Mining
Continue readingRegarding Reform Of Non-Coal Mining Regulations
Continue readingNugent Case Underscores Weakness In State Regulation of Non-Coal Mining
Continue readingKRC files brief Opposing Bonds for Transpark
Continue readingThe regulations, which will be filed in final form by the Cabinet after review of the comments received, have been attacked by industry groups as being too onerous, and the standards to which the property must be cleaned or managed, too rigorous.
Continue readingKFTC/ KRC CITIZEN COMPLAINT SPURS FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT ACTION
Continue readingKRC's testimony Before the Jefferson County Planning Commission
Continue readingOpening Brief Filed In Case Challenging Issuance of Mine Permits
Continue readingPRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE MARTIN COUNTY COAL WASTE SPILL
Continue readingWarren County "Transpark" Bond Appeal Update
Continue readingKRC serves notice opposing coal slurry pond near Kentucky River
Continue readingQuestioning the Stone Mountain Experimental Practice
Continue readingKentucky Citizen Groups Notify EPA of Intent to Sue to Protect Kentucky's Waterways
Continue readingNotice of Intent To Sue Pursuant To Clean Water Act Section 505 and 5 U.S.C. Sections 701-706
Continue readingCall & Support HR 133: Pine Mountain Settlement School
Continue readingA tentative agreement was reached earlier this past week among Rep. Paul Bather, Bob Benson, representing the City of Louisville, the Kentucky League of Cities, and the Council regarding the text of a voluntary remediation (brownfields) bill. The tex
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