Posted by: KFTC on February 27, 2012
Today is the last day the U.S. EPA is accepting comments on a proposed rule change that would weaken efforts to clean up the skies in national parks, including Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.
The proposal would let coal-burning power plants in 28 states use a weaker air pollution emissions standard. In short, the EPA wants to allows power plants in those states to use the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) to improve natural visibility conditions in Class I areas rather than the source-specific Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART).
Posted by: Jessica Hays on February 26, 2012
Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11:30 a.m., a state Senate committee might vote on a bill that would make remove the obligation for phone carriers to provide service to people in Kentucky's rural communities. This would include 911 services.
Posted by: Tanya Turner on February 26, 2012
Last summer Pallavi Podapati, of Hazard, worked with the Perry and surrounding KFTC chapters on several adventures, from a listening project across several eastern Kentucky counties to capturing the March on Blair Mountain, WV in photographs. She is currently a pre-med student at the University of Pennsylvania and very active in local Philadelphia community campaigns to encourage banks and corporations to de-fund mountaintop removal in Appalachia and invest in mountain communities.
Posted by: Joe Gallenstein on February 26, 2012
The Northern Kentucky KFTC Chapter is proud that this Wednesday they will be the 'Charity of the Month' at Oakbrook Cafe in Burlington, Kentucky! In recognition of KFTC's work to help register and inform voters across northern Kentucky, the restaurant and bar has selected the chapter to receive 10 percent of all proceeds sold on Wednesday February 29th.
Posted by: Dave Newton on February 23, 2012
Exciting and final news today about legislative redistricting in the Kentucky Legislature:
Posted by: Joe Gallenstein on February 23, 2012
Posted by: Erik Hungerbuhler on February 23, 2012
For years, our bill to restore voting rights to most former felons who have served their debt to society has passed the House by a wide margin, but has not been allowed to even come up for discussion in the Senate.
Posted by: Dave Newton on February 23, 2012
Posted by: Dave Newton on February 23, 2012
Citizen lobbying on KFTC's issues doesn't just happen through direct contact with legislators. We also do a lot of broad public education and leadership development work, which is at least as important.
Posted by: Dave Newton on February 22, 2012
In addition to editorials by the Herald-Leader, Courier-Journal, WDRB, and others, there has been a new set published in the Georgetown News-Graphic (home of Senator Damon Thayer), and the Kentucky New Era (Hopkinsville).
