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Longtime inspector named Kentucky mine safety chief
March 1, 2012
Freddie Lewis, a long-time inspector was appointed March 1 as executive director of the Kentucky Office of Mine Safety and Licensing, the state agency charged with enforcing laws that keep coal miners safe.
New MTR Campaign Kicks Off in Washington, DC
February 29, 2012
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
House leaders refuse to find new revenue
February 27, 2012
House leaders negotiate budget with no pay raises for teachers and state workers, deep cuts for critical programs.
Ky. Voices: Encourage power companies to expand clean energy
February 24, 2012
This op-ed is by a member of the Kentucky Sustainable Energy Alliance
Environmental groups ask Kentucky lawmakers to consider coal's health impact
January 25, 2012
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.
Not 'frivolous' for state to save Benham, Lynch
May 1, 2011
In 1999, the then-Gov. Paul Patton administration was part of a negotiated settlement in which the state paid $4.2 million for the timber and coal rights to preserve the state's highest peak. Extending the protection farther down Black Mountain would protect the state's earlier investment. Instead, the Beshear administration found local efforts to do just that "frivolous."
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