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Ryan Kellman/NPRThe natural climate pattern known as El Niño has officially begun. It exacerbates human-caused climate change, driving even hotter temperatures and other dangerous weather. -
Ryan Van Velzer/LPMEastern Kentucky’s largest power provider told lawmakers Thursday they plan to raise rates next year even as officials acknowledged their customers already face some of the highest electricity bills in the state.
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A Kentucky environmental advocate is concerned about the health of the state’s waterways in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision announced Thursday that reduced the reach of federal clean water protections. -
Car manufacturer Toyota will purchase power from an eastern Kentucky solar project – an announcement proponents say is a milestone in efforts to transition away from the state’s declining coal industry, and towards renewable energy.
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American Synthetic Rubber Company is facing more than $100,000 in fines for releasing excess amounts of air pollution into the city’s industrial corridor and neighborhoods nearby and failing to notify regulators.
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Experts and industrial leaders, along with federal and state officials, are coming together in far western Kentucky this week to talk about the future of nuclear energy, saying it should be an important part of transitioning to non-carbon-based fuel sources and mitigating climate change.
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The historic flooding that killed 45 people in eastern Kentucky last July also destroyed one of the few grocery stores in Letcher County. Now, the IGA in Isom is back open for business.
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A state worker says billboard companies are in conversation with the state Department of Transportation to cut down hundreds of trees that block visibility of their advertisements along interstates in Jefferson County.
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CenterPoint expects converting its Culley 3 coal unit and moving to mostly renewable energy will reduce the company's carbon emissions by about 95 percent and save customers almost $80 million in the next 20 years.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is working with the city of Louisville to develop novel technology measuring toxic air pollution from Rubbertown -- the city’s industrial corridor. Five years later, they’ve got the first full year of results.
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Reporters asked Gov. Andy Beshear about a recent investigation into the eastern Kentucky flooding cleanup process at press conferences Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Both times the governor said he had not read the entire piece, but that the state would “do our best” to address the concerns raised by survivors.
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A walkthrough for how KyCIR analyzed tens of thousands of pieces of data for its investigation on debris after the 2022 eastern Kentucky floods.
