Curtis Tate
ReporterCurtis Tate is a reporter at WEKU. He spent four years at West Virginia Public Broadcasting and before that, 18 years as a reporter and copy editor for Gannett, Dow Jones and McClatchy. He has covered energy and the environment, transportation, travel, Congress and state government. He has won awards from the National Press Foundation and the New Jersey Press Association. Curtis is a Kentucky native and a graduate of the University of Kentucky.
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The company says the project it is building in Hancock County will not increase electric bills. -
In May, a Shelby County jury found Shannon Gilday guilty but mentally ill. -
In July, U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove ordered company associates to pay $18 million in a 2012 lawsuit filed by New London Tobacco Market and Fivemile Energy. -
Gov. Andy Beshear’s Aug. 6 order directs the state Energy and Environment Cabinet to deny air quality permits for any data center project that worsens the environment. -
The declines come amid a surge in the growth of solar power and despite Trump administration policies intended to boost coal use. -
Residents across Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia have packed public meetings in recent months to speak out against data centers, with a recurring concern being how they could affect the cost of electricity. -
Wednesday, Chairman and CEO Paul Prager told investors the company is looking to double the power of what it calls the Muskie Data Campus. -
Three hundred former employees of Clintwood JOD LLC sued in March, seeking 60 days of pay and benefits they say they should have received under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
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President Donald Trump’s administration has taken aggressive steps to boost coal production, but those efforts may only have partially succeeded. -
Several Kentucky utilities have signed on to the Trump administration's Ratepayer Protection Pledge.
