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Martin County is a community in eastern Kentucky with a current population of approximately 11,195 people. [14] The people of this county have been struggling to survive due to heavily contaminated water for the last several decades. The contamination can be traced back to an incident in October 2000.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Kentucky designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Köppen climate types in Kentucky, showing that the state is almost entirely humid subtropical. Climate change in Kentucky encompasses the effects of climate change, attributed to man-made increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The United States Environmental Protection Agency reports: "Kentucky's climate is ...
Water and sewer crews from across Kentucky are headed to Eastern Kentucky to help counties and cities restore busted and broken water systems a week after deadly floods knocked out water service ...
The flooding affected more than 20 counties, but Breathitt and Rowan counties were hit the hardest. In Breathitt County, the flood destroyed the Kentucky Mountain Bible Institute, 44 houses and 60 ...
Editor’s note: This is Part 3 of “A Heavy Burden,” a five-part investigation into Louisville’s ongoing problem with childhood exposure to lead paint.What is often thought to be a 20th ...
Map showing location of Martin County in Kentucky Wolf Creek on October 22, 2000. The Martin County coal slurry spill was a mining accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000, when the bottom of a coal slurry impoundment owned by Massey Energy in Martin County, Kentucky, broke into an abandoned underground mine below. [1]
Mountaintop removal coal mining in Martin County, Kentucky Strip mining in Barnesville, Ohio. Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia is the study of environmental justice – the interdisciplinary body of social science literature studying theories of the environment and justice; environmental laws, policies, and their implementations and enforcement; development and ...