New Energy and Transition News | Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

New Energy and Transition News

KFTC building movement with Climate Justice alliance

May 2, 2019 at 01:40am

At the end of March, several KFTC members and staff traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico to represent KFTC at the 2019 Member Convening of the Climate Justice Alliance.

CJA is a diverse yet aligned coalition of communities on the frontline of the climate crisis from across the country and world working for a Just Transition. 

The member convening was a similar to KFTC's annual membership meeting – combining voting on key proposals and plans for CJA's work by CJA member organizations, with valuable moments of collective learning, relationship building and deepening alignment. 

Read more

What is the Green New Deal?

April 23, 2019 at 04:58pm

KFTC members are involved in conversations on the local, state and national level about the Green New Deal, a bold and broad proposal to address climate change, set the country on a sustainable energy future and tackle inequalities in the energy economy and across society.

Read more

Despite grassroots power, utility money sways legislators in the solar fight

A home with solar panels on its roof
April 10, 2019 at 01:08am

Anyone who has followed the progress of Senate Bill 100, which attacked ordinary Kentuckians’ access to rooftop solar during the 2019 General Assembly, knows that this legislative session, monopoly utilities were determined to have their way.

Read more

Utility PAC donations rolled in ahead of solar industry bill fight

February 25, 2019
The Courier-Journal

Four big utility interests pumped $327,050 into the political committees of legislative candidates and the political parties during the 2018 election cycle. 

That compares with the $6,500 contributed by the tiny political action committee of Kentucky’s solar industry.

Read more

Mitch McConnell is silent on coal while Kentucky miners suffer and die

February 22, 2019
The Courier-Journal

McConnell has repeatedly failed to do right by our coal workers and communities.

Read more

Exciting! Benham$aves energy efficiency project receives $200,000 pledge

February 13, 2019 at 01:51pm
Just Transition, , Communities Taking Action, , Energy Democracy, , Sustainable Energy, Harlan County

IMG_2358 (1)

KFTC members took part in a special called meeting of the Benham Power Board on February 12 to share the good news that an anonymous donor pledged $200,000 to support the Benham$aves Program.

Read more

At a crossroads, Ohio River agency weighs dueling proposals on role

February 4, 2019
Energy News Network
Jefferson County, Northern Kentucky, Western Kentucky
An industry-backed effort aims to end ORSANCO’s role in setting and enforcing pollution standards.
Read more

LG&E/KU rate case attempts to alter reality

An electric meter in the winter
February 1, 2019 at 05:51pm
Energy Democracy, , Sustainable Energy, Central Kentucky, Energy Democracy, , Sustainable Energy, Harlan County, Energy Democracy, , Sustainable Energy, Jefferson County

Over the past several years, Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities (KU) have pushed legislation that would eliminate net metering – the retail electric energy rate that rooftop solar owners receive as compensation for electricity they feed back to the grid.

Read more

Fighting to Save the Black Lung Trust Fund

December 15, 2018
WMMT Making Connection News
Just Transition, Big Sandy, Just Transition, Cumberland, Just Transition, Harlan County, Just Transition, Perry County
Read more

The Farm Bureau: Big Oil’s Unnoticed Ally Fighting Climate Science and Policy

December 21, 2018
Inside Climate News

For more than three decades, the Farm Bureau has aligned agriculture closely with the fossil fuel agenda.

Read more

Page