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A power plant in Western Kentucky with a history of polluting groundwater is planning to phase out coal after four decades of operation. It’s the seventh…
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EnvironmentOften, pollution is invisible. It’s in the exhaust particles we breathe walking past traffic, or the traces of mercury in Kentucky fish. But at the Green…
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EnvironmentEnvironmental groups are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s new deadlines for the closure of the country’s unlined coal ash ponds, which…
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As President Trump attempts to revive the struggling coal industry, the administration’s top regulator for mine safety used a recent lecture at West…
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President Donald Trump’s desire to help boost the Ohio Valley’s energy industry and bring back mining jobs could be stymied by the administration’s…
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A new report from the National Academy of Sciences says the coal mining industry needs a “fundamental shift” in the way it controls exposure to coal and…
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Curt and Debbie Havens’ ranch style home is the gathering place for their family. Their two boys grew up playing in the streets in this quiet neighborhood…
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For decades, Kentucky’s own coal stoked the fires that generated most of its electricity. And while some of those power plants have shut down or switched…
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For generations, coal power has fueled American prosperity. But for each shovelful thrown into the furnaces, a pile of ash was left in its place.Today, as…
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Do the new regulations strengthen the requirements for new coal ash sites, as the department keeps insisting? Or do they weaken them?