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Action Alert: Help stop a coal zombie!

May 31, 2010 at 08:00pm

The proposed coal-burning Smith plant is refusing to die.

Your voice is needed to end it once and for all!


The coal-burning Smith plant proposed by the East Kentucky Power Cooperative is the living dead. 

Community members organize and speak out at hearing on coal ash landfill

May 31, 2010 at 08:00pm
Jefferson County

This post was written by Jefferson County KFTC member and intern Beth Bissmeyer.

UPDATED: A Bill To Help Rural Residents Finance Energy Efficiency Improvements Considered at Federal Level

May 12, 2010 at 08:00pm

An important step to achieving a clean and economically viable future for rural electric cooperatives, their member-customers, and their local economies will be the establishment of "on-bill financingâ€ programs which will help overcome the up-front costs of implementing energy efficiency and weatherization measures.


 

CKY Chili Cook Off Friendraiser!

May 11, 2010 at 08:00pm
Central Kentucky

On April 30th, the central Kentucky chapter of KFTC held a chili-cook off friendraiser. What's a friendraiser you ask? Well it's an opportunity to raise money for the organization but with a focus on giving members a chance to hang out with one another, celebrate all of our hard work, and just have a darn good time.

EPA proposes improved regulations for coal ash

May 4, 2010 at 08:00pm
Jefferson County

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unveiled two options today to regulate waste from coal-burning power plants in order to better protect public health and drinking water sources. The two competing alternatives would provide varying levels of protection to the state water resources, and could take years to implement.

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