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Gallatin County Residents Prevail in Permit Challenge
Gallatin County Residents Prevail in Permit Challenge
Continue readingComment period opens on proposed antidegradation rule for Kentucky's streams.
Comment period opens on proposed antidegradation rule for Kentucky's streams.
Continue readingCitizens Coal Council and KRC Challenge EPA Rule Relaxing Sediment Controls On Mining
Citizens Coal Council and KRC Challenge EPA Rule Relaxing Sediment Controls On Mining
Continue readingRegarding Reform Of Non-Coal Mining Regulations
Regarding Reform Of Non-Coal Mining Regulations
Continue readingNugent Case Underscores Weakness In State Regulation of Non-Coal Mining
Nugent Case Underscores Weakness In State Regulation of Non-Coal Mining
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Energy & the Environment
Tom FitzGerald, director of KRC, presents. The regulatory goal for state and federal agencies regulating coal extraction, combustion, and disposal should be conservative design, not minimum compliance.
Continue readingKRC Files Brief Opposing Bonds for Transpark
KRC Files Brief Opposing Bonds for Transpark
Continue readingNew Zoning Regulations for Jefferson County
New Zoning Regulations for Jefferson County
Continue readingPublic hearing on request to terminate protections
Public hearing on request to terminate protections
Continue readingProposed Regulations Implementing Voluntary Environmental Remediation
The 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.
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Environmental Concerns With Mining
The mining industry has been skating on the edge with their approach to worker safety and mining, and to social responsibility, and it has brought its woes on itself, and that the viability of the eastern coal industry.
Continue readingRevisions to the Land Development Code for Louisville and Jefferson County
Below are the written comments submitted last Friday, August 9, by the Kentucky Resources Council on the revisions to the Land Development Code for Louisville and Jefferson County. The revisions to the zoning regulations of the county...
Continue readingThe Kentucky Resources Council is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the conservation and prudent use of Kentucky’s natural resources. Since 1984, we have dedicated ourselves to protecting Kentucky’s land, air, water, and communities.