KRC responds to U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Sackett v. EPA: stating the decision "represents a disappointing setback for the decades-long national effort to restore, protect, and maintain water quality"
Continue readingOn November 16, KRC joined with 116 conservation, faith, and health organizations and businesses in urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw its rushed Proposal to Reissue and Modify Nationwide Permits.
Continue readingKRC was honored to be a signatory to a letter to United States Senators and Representatives highlighting water quality concerns and priorities of conservation organizations regarding the comprehensive water resources legislation pending.
Continue readingKRC comments on the request by the Nucor Corporation for Section 404 Permit for their proposed Brandenburg, Kentucky steel plate mill.
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's Director, Tom FitzGerald, serves as a federal Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) commissioner and made comments opposing ORSANCO's proposal to eliminate water pollution standards for the Ohio River.
Continue readingKRS Chapter 13A is designed to assure that an agency regulation is subject to public notice and comment. The agency request plainly violates both the letter and spirit of KRS Chapter 13A and deprives the public of notice and comment.
Continue readingChallenge to EPA Approval of 2013 Kentucky Water Quality Standards for selenium and for preventing eutrophication results in settlement agreement.
Continue readingKRC Joins the National Parks Conservation Association and 26 other groups in filing a friend of the court brief supporting the Chesapeake Bay TMDL Clean Water Blueprint
Continue readingKRC Expresses Support For Removing Position of For-Profit Water Provider From Kentucky Infrastructure Authority Board
Continue readingComplaint Challenges EPA Approval of Selenium Water Quality Standard for Kentucky
Continue readingKRC Signs Joint Letter With 94 Other Organizations In Seeking Reforms In Federal Water Resources Development Act
Continue readingKRC Comments on Proposed Changes to State Water Quality Standards
Continue readingDiscretionary Review Sought In Kentucky-American Water Case
Continue readingWater Quality Certification for Paducah Dock Project Challenged
Continue readingKRC Joins 64 Other Conservation Organizations In Joint Comments Opposing Reissuance Of Nationwide Fill Permits
Continue readingKRC Comments On Amendments To Water Antidegradaton Rule
Continue readingKRC Requests Denial of Water Quality Certification in Dock Project
Continue readingEPA's Guidance On Improving Review of Appalachian Mining Operations Under Clean Water Act.
Continue readingA 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...
Continue readingDivision of Water Modifies Regulation For Review of Semipublic Water Treatment Systems To Require Engineering Report For Any Engineered System
Continue readingMemorandum Of Understanding Among Mining And Water Agencies Will Implement Fill Minimization Protocol and Reduce The Size and Number of Valley Fills
Continue readingFrasure Creek 404 Application in Buckhorn Creek Watershed Withdrawn
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 readingCourt Remands Permits For 9 West Kentucky Confined Hog Feeding Operations
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 readingThe 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.
Continue readingKRC Comments On Revisions To Kentucky Water Regulations
Continue readingMotions Challenge Kentucky-American's Condemnation Powers
Continue readingDeclaratory Judgment Challenges Kentucky-American Water Company's Power To Condemn Land For Pipeline Project
Continue reading6th Circuit Decision in Antidegradation Case Rejects In Part EPA's Approval of Kentucky Water Quality Rules
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
Continue readingFloodplain Variance Allowing Beargrass Creek Relocation Is Challenged
Continue readingWeakening of Stream Buffer Zone Rules Opposed
Continue readingAppeal Filed On Cabinet Order Upholding Issuance of Permits For Confined Hog Operations In Fulton, Carlisle and Hickman Counties
Continue readingKRC Comments on Drinking Water Rule Changes
Continue readingComments on Glasgow Landfill Water Discharge Permit
Continue readingBroader monitoring and limits sought for wastewater discharge into Lake Cumberland
Continue readingFulton County Approves Ordinance Regulating Confined Hog Operations
Continue readingWater Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Challenged
Continue readingKRC Asks For Stricter Limits On Water Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Facility
Continue readingIssuance of Permits For Industrial-Scale Hog Feeding Operations Challenged
Continue readingIncreased Ambient Monitoring Recommended In Comments On TMDL For Bayou de Chien
Continue readingKRC Opposes Weakening Of Recreational Use Protections In Ohio River; Urges Tighter Standards On Mixing Zones
Continue readingCabinet Urged To Require Co-Permitting and Better Controls on 9 Proposed Confined Hog Feeding Operations
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Hog Farm Permits
Continue readingSupplemental Comments On Integrator Liability
Continue readingModel Confined Hog Feeding Operation Ordinance
Continue readingKRC Comments On Kramers Lane Groundwater Study
Continue readingModel Confined Swine Feeding Permit Developed
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 Comments On 404 Permit For Maverick Steel
Continue readingEPA sued for failure to finalize rule to protect Kentucky's waters from degradation
Continue readingLandowner Succeeds In Obtaining Groundwater Protections In Pooling Order
Continue readingOSM Proposes to Weaken Stream Protections
Continue readingComment period opens on proposed antidegradation rule for Kentucky's streams.
Continue readingProposed Revisions to the Clean Water Act Regulatory Definitions of "Fill Material" and "Discharge of Fill Material"
Continue readingPreliminary Analysis of the Martin County Coal Waste Spill
Continue readingCorps of Engineers Nationwide Permit Reissuance
Continue readingKRC Service Notice, Opposes Coal Slurry Pond
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