News of KFTC and our issues
Water Safety Activism in Rural Red States Impedes Fossil Energy Development
December 9, 2016
Efforts in Kentucky to stop a hazardous liquids pipeline proposal reflect a movement across the country — encompassing tens of thousands of residents and many elected local and state officials who supported a pro-pipeline president-elect. In many cases the protests are assisted by state, regional, and national environmental advocacy organizations.
Kentuckians can handle the truth, the coal truth and nothing but the truth
October 28, 2016
Natural gas is expected to overtake coal this year as the country’s No. 1 source of power and could continue to underprice coal for the next 20 to 50 years.
Bevin talks voting rights, hasn't restored any
October 8, 2016
“I’ve always been guided by the principle of looking at what people do, not what they say,” said [Rep. Darryl] Owens, who has sponsored bills in recent sessions to allow automatic restoration of civil rights for felons (with some exceptions including violent crimes and sexual offenses) upon completion of all terms of their sentences.
A different kind of holler: Appalachia’s future is looking a lot more high-tech
September 19, 2016
"[T]hings are changing. That was evident in the presentations Friday that attracted more than 200 people to Hazard Community and Technical College called Big Ideas Fest for Appalachia: Visionary Thinking and Doing.
Conferences offer competing environmental views
September 19, 2016
The 40th Governor's Conference on Energy and the Environment on Wednesday and Thursday in Lexington has 34 listed speakers or moderators, but only two of them come from a non-profit, environmental advocacy background.
Where’s McConnell on boost for coal country?
September 16, 2016
A $1 billion plan to put coal miners back to work and turn some of Appalachia’s environmental problems into economic progress holds promise but must involve residents of the region in planning and ensure that the benefits stay in the communities where help is needed the most.
Killing workers to create coal jobs?
March 8, 2016
Two "friends of coal" prove they are no friends of coal miners with bills to gut safety inspections.
Senate bill would end state safety inspections of coal mines
March 4, 2016
The state of Kentucky would stop inspecting coal mines for safety violations under a Senate bill filed Thursday, leaving the job entirely to federal inspectors, who visit mines less frequently.
Comment | Make Ky. healthier with renewable energy
February 17, 2016
Imagine if we replaced coal with cleaner sources of energy that drastically reduce the chances of our loved ones suffering from a deadly lung disease. Solar and other renewable forms of energy do not emit carbon dioxide or other pollutants that eat away at our lungs and harm the planet.
Lawmakers can energize Ky.’s economy
January 28, 2016
Kentucky’s House economic development committee heard on Thursday that the clean-energy industry added 3,159 jobs in North Carolina last year and now employs 26,000 people; then the committee approved a bill authorizing new tax incentives for the coal industry in Kentucky.
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