May 20, 2012 at 08:00pm
Gov. Steve Beshear has been cozying up with big coal executives even more than usual in the last year.
A story this morning by Tom Loftus in The Courier-Journal revealed that Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy who was in charge when 29 miners were killed at the Upper Big Branch Mine in 2010, was was part of the governor's Derby Day entourage this year.
May 14, 2012
Think Progress
Electricity generation in the U.S. from coal took a dramatic drop in in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the first quarter of 2011. According to new figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, coal made up 36 percent of U.S. electricity — down from 44.6 percent in the first quarter of 2011.
May 17, 2012 at 08:00pm
Louisville Loves Mountains has officially kicked off, welcome y'all!
We're here in Louisville, KY to spread the word that our state and our people deserve better (and know better) than to destroy our biodiversity and sell our quality of life away to King Coal! Our mountains are precious and so are the people who inhabit them. It's not just our history, heritage, and environment at stake; it's our health, jobs, legislation, resources, and future energy solutions that we need to work to protect and grow. Please join us in a city-style hootenanny to raise awareness of the fact that we all live downstream!
May 17, 2012 at 08:00pm
About 20 KFTC members from 10 counties met in Prestonsburg last week for a training about ways to use community organizing and community science to enforce the Clean Water Act and protect the health of their communities.
"Knowledge is power," noted one participant from Magoffin County. "Water testing is a good way to get other people involved. To be honest, lots of people don't pay much attention to so-called experts. But information they get from their neighbors holds more water."
May 17, 2012 at 08:00pm
Several KFTC members participated in a powerful program last week to draw attention to the connections between what is happening to the land and people in Central Appalachia and related conditions throughout the world.
They shared testimony with other women from the region about the health, economic, community and environmental impacts of coal at the Central Appalachian Women's Tribunal on Climate Justice. The event took place May 10 in Charleston, West Virginia.
May 16, 2012 at 08:00pm
KFTC members held signs, displayed homemade art hats and had conversations about climate change during this year's Kentucky Derby on May 5th, 2012. They were acting in concert with organization 350.org during it's international "Connect the Dots: Showing the Human Face of Climate Change" event. The goal was to communicate the connection between the extreme weather the world is experiencing and climate change.
May 15, 2012 at 08:00pm
Students and professors from Transylvania University in Lexington spent a week at Camp Blanton in Harlan County earlier this month. During their time, they connected with KFTC leaders from all over Harlan, Letcher and Perry counties to learn about the land, culture and people of east Kentucky and beyond. They also spent some time in our Whitesburg KFTC office to screen our 30th anniversary film, I Was There: The first 30 years of KFTC. Below are photos from their experience.
April 12, 2012
Grist
Despite billions and billions of dollars in federal subsidies, the fossil fuel industry has been shedding jobs by the thousands in recent years.
May 7, 2012
Greenwire (via Coal Tattoo)
The Office of Surface Mining, the federal government’s top coal mining regulator, is threatening a partial takeover of Kentucky’s regulatory program for abandoned mine reclamation …
May 2, 2012
Lexington Herald-Leader
In a unanimous rebuff of the Beshear administration's environmental cabinet, the Kentucky Supreme Court has upheld citizens' rights to be heard in clean water enforcement actions …
