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The public comment period for next steps at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Cumberland Fossil Plant ends on Monday.
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The deep and immediate cuts in fossil fuel emissions necessary to curb climate change stand in stark contrast to current Kentucky politics. WFPL Ryan Van Velzer reports.
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The regulatory snag shows the limits of what supporters of West Virginia’s coal plants can do to keep them from shutting down as the country moves away from fossil fuels.
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Environmental and consumer groups have pushed for the early closure of a 50-year-old coal-fired power plant in West Virginia that serves electricity customers in both West Virginia and Kentucky. They have an unlikely ally: Kentucky’s Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron.
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A federal government program designed to provide funds for the restoration of Abandoned Mine Lands is not equally distributing money across Kentucky, some western Kentucky leaders argue.
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In a speech in Kentucky on Monday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said the old rules aimed at reducing carbon dioxide were tantamount to declaring war on the coal industry.
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Despite the Trump administration’s support for the coal industry, the power sector is moving toward more use of natural gas. Even the Ohio Valley, where…
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Can coal make a comeback? That’s the title of a new report from Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. Researchers there analyzed the…
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After years of coal industry decline, Kentucky has fallen from the nation’s third largest coal producer to the fifth. Federal data released last month…
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Retired miners will not lose their health benefits, as had been feared, thanks to last-minute action from Congress. However, Congress did not act on the…