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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]
An environmental audit of the site in 2003 found PCBs in the sediment surrounding the area, and further testing was ordered. In December 2008, EPA inspectors found about four dozen rusted metal drums on land just outside the part of the dump that it capped and fenced in the 1980s, including a portion of Jefferson Memorial Forest .
With years of violations of the Clean Water Act, Frasure Creek was issued the largest fine ever entered by the state of Kentucky for environmental violations against any company. [14] Following the settlement, if at any point Frasure Creek mining company or any of its owners want to apply for new permits, a fine of $2.75 million must be paid.
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 ...
Initially, the auditor of public accounts served as a comptroller and tax collector for state government. The Reorganization Act of 1936 transferred those functions to other state agencies and established the auditor's office as "...an impartial agency entirely independent of state administration and charged with the responsibility of auditing the accounts and financial transactions of all ...
House Bill 136 extends that protection to Jefferson County, the only place in Kentucky where a separate air pollution control district, rather than the state, actively regulates air quality and ...
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 ...
Kentucky Rural Water Association has seven staff on the ground in Eastern Kentucky helping devastated local utilities with evaluation and restoration efforts, said Scott Young, executive director ...