February 29, 2012
EcoWatch
Besieged residents living amid the fallout of the mountaintop removal crisis in the central Appalachian coalfields are descending on Washington, DC today, as part of a new emergency health campaign calling for an immediate moratorium on “the toxic coal acquisition process that has been shown to be associated with heart-breaking birth defects, cardiac problems, lung problems and systemic failure
February 28, 2012 at 07:00pm
February 28, 2012 at 06:55pm
As we do each February, KFTC members brought some love for the mountains to Fra
January 25, 2012
Lexington Herald-Leader
Kentucky's leaders should consider the health hazards of mining, moving and burning coal as they craft the state's energy policy, an environmental group said Tuesday.
The Kentucky Environmental Foundation, based in Berea, released a 44-page "health-impact assessment" on coal and sent copies to Gov. Steve Beshear and the General Assembly.
February 28, 2012 at 01:24pm
Wilson Creek residents are looking to state officials to find new ways to protect their land, water, health and community after a Kentucky Court of Appeals panel struck down restrictions on any strip mining that would take place there.
February 27, 2012 at 07:00pm
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).
February 26, 2012 at 07:00pm
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.
February 19, 2012 at 07:00pm
Wilson Creek residents are looking to state officials to find new ways to protect their land, water, health and community after a Kentucky Court of Appeals panel struck down restrictions on any strip mining that would take place there.
In a ruling issued Friday, the panel voided a state regulation that the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet relied on to issue those protections. The judges remanded the case back to the cabinet.
February 16, 2012 at 07:00pm
February 14, 2012 at 07:00pm
As we do each February, KFTC members brought some love for the mountains to Frankfort on Valentine's Day along with 1,200 homemade pinwheels in a rainbow of colors.
The pinwheels represented the 60,000 additional cases of cancer that studies have linked to mountaintop removal mining. The pinwheels also symbolized the hope of clean energy alternatives.
