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The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet attempted to settle in Franklin Circuit Court in December, 2010 but was denied. [4] The case moved forward to the Kentucky Supreme Court in April, 2012 who agreed with lower court rulings that Appalachian Voices and others were legally supported by the CWA to intervene in the lawsuit against Frasure ...
A new letter ― signed by EIP, the Kentucky Resources Council, the Kentucky Waterways Alliance and the Kentucky chapter of the Sierra Club ― calls on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ...
The Martin County coal slurry spill occurred 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. The slurry came out of the mine openings, sending an estimated 306,000,000 US gallons (1.16×109 L; 255,000,000 imp gal) of slurry down ...
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]
They have been called “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down well in the environment. Kentucky issues advisory to limit fish consumption over potential cancer-causing chemicals ...
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 ...
Curious reporters obtained documents through the open records law showing that health cabinet inspectors wrote up scores of violations at a nursing home Conner owned in 2001, ending its Medicaid ...
In 2002 the Kentucky state government launched an investigation that resulted in forty-three problems being addressed in the Martin County water supply. [17] However, subsequent relaunches of this investigation in 2006 and 2016 into the MCWD's operations found that the MCWD had failed to implement any solutions to the forty-three problems and ...