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Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to a trade association that’s pushing back on proposed rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from gas and coal-fired power plants. LG&E officials say their position is in alignment with the trade association.

Jefferson County, Kentucky, had the country’s third highest number of premature deaths due to particulate pollution from coal-fired power plants, according to a new report from the Sierra Club.

A half-dozen power plants in Kentucky are storing toxic coal ash in or near groundwater and may have to remove it in order to comply with federal regulations designed to protect people’s health and the environment.

Hunter Hobson is the CEO of INMET, which owns the Harlan County mine where a 33 year-old miner died last month.

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…

Appalachian coal emits more than a million tons of methane a year, and the region is the largest U.S. source of the potent greenhouse gas.

On Earth Day, President Joe Biden convened world leaders for a climate summit, where he laid out an ambitious goal for U.S. policy on climate change.“The…

On Thursday — Earth Day — President Joe Biden announced an ambitious goal to fight the climate crisis: The country will cut by half its global warming…

United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts said he’s been hearing the term “just transition” tossed around for more than 20 years as part of…

After intense flooding this March, some worry that more slides are inevitable — and that part of the problem might be man-made.