October 17, 2012 at 10:33pm
A permit issued in July to Leeco allowing the coal company to destroy three miles of stream and construct a huge valley fill was issued without consideration of negative health impacts on nearby residents and those downstream, a lawsuit filed today claims. Both the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) require such consideration.
October 17, 2012 at 01:40pm
Christian Torp has been hiking the Appalachian trail since March of this year to raise awareness about the destructive practice of mountain top removal mining and to raise money for Kentuckians for the Commonwealth. These are his reflections as his voyage comes to a close.
October 15, 2012
WFPL-FM
Louisville Gas and Electric announced that its coal-burning Cane Run Power Plant will be shut down by May 2015, eight months earlier than planned.
October 12, 2012
MakingConnectionsNews.org
This powerful interview with a recently laid off miner from Letcher County, KY is something everyone should hear.
October 6, 2012 at 02:28pm
KFTC’s effort to improve the water quality and thereby protect the health of people in eastern Kentucky took a significant step forward Friday with the filing of a settlement in the Clean Water Act case against the International Coal Group (ICG).
“We know that to create a better future for eastern Kentucky, we have to have water that is safe to drink and a more diverse economy,” said KFTC member Ted Withrow. “This agreement gives us the right, as Kentuckians, to know what’s in our water and to work to restore and maintain its quality.”
October 5, 2012 at 02:42pm
The new Wildnerness Trace chapter of KFTC invites you to join them at the Vice Presidential Debate Festival in Danville on Thursday, October 11, 2012.
KFTC members will be speaking on the issues we work on that are important to the national debate--either because they're being addressed or have been ignored and need to be heard.
If you come to join us for the day, please wear your KFTC t-shirt if you have one, or any bright green shirt. We want to stand out in the crowd!
4:30 pm -- KFTC Speakers at the Speakers' Park
Introduction to KFTC and local organizing -- Wilderness Trace Chapter members
Economic Justice: Tax and Budget Issues -- Dana Beasley Brown
Voting Rights -- Tayna Fogle
Coal & Energy -- Carl Shoupe
October 2, 2012 at 05:38pm
Since early spring, homeowners in the Harlan County community of Coxton have been contacting local and state officials about land sliding and excessive water runoff threatening their homes. Their continued efforts even landed them on the front page of the Harlan Daily Enterprise in June.
In the investigative report, Coxton resident Floyd Hamblin told the paper, “I first began seeing muddy water coming off the mountain in March. I went up on the mountain myself and I saw a highwall, where you walk around the logging road, and a cut that was made is about 6 or 7 feet high. There was water running off the mountain over the highwall onto the logging road and cutting gaps in the mountainside.”
September 27, 2012 at 07:51pm
It wasn't just another quiet day at the office at the Joe Craft Center at the University of Kentucky on September 13. The early afternoon clicking of keyboards and polite hallway helloes was banished by the bursting of pro-democracy, clean energy chants.
September 26, 2012
WFPL
LG&E Withdraws Application for Second Ash Landfill at Cane Run
September 24, 2012
WFPL-FM
In increasing numbers, scientists are in agreement that the earth’s climate is changing, and human carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to those changes. A NASA climate scientist was in Louisville this weekend to talk about the growing evidence.
