Water Quality
Power Up Webinar: Update on NGL pipelines
This provides background on the proposed Bluegrass Hazardous Liquids Pipeline and other natural gas liquids pipelines in Kentucky, as well as an update on legislation to allow landowners to protect their property from pipeline company attempts to use eminent domain to condemn property for easements.
Long-overdue rules to limit coal ash exposure coming after court settlement
In response to legal action by a broad coalition of national and local groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must finalize first-ever federal standards for the disposal of coal ash by December 19, 2014.
The settlement does not dictate the content of the final regulation, but gives the agency a deadline to finalize standards after years of delay.
Gov. Steve Beshear's Budget Cuts Deep for Some Kentucky Energy and Environment Programs
Some departments of the Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet will see deep cuts over the next two years, if the General Assembly approves Gov. Steve Beshear’s proposed budget.
Gasland 2
A showing of the film Gasland 2 by Josh Fox (Gasland 1 shown on January 16). Free. Donations welcome. Sponsored by the Sisters of Loretto.
Groups challenge EPA decision allowing Kentucky officials to gut clean water protection
On Friday, community and environmental groups took legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a recent decision allowing Kentucky to weaken its water quality standards for selenium, a pollutant common to mountaintop removal coal mines.
"KFTC and our allies have worked for years to make EPA fully aware of the systemic failures of Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet to protect our commonwealth’s people, waters and environment,” said Doug Doerrfeld, a member of KFTC’s litigation team. “In light of this history it is disgraceful that EPA would approve a weakened selenium standard that will not only leave aquatic life at risk but will make citizen enforcement all but impossible."
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