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Hundreds coming to Green New Deal event Saturday in Frankfort
Kentuckians will help shape a just transition
May 9, 2019
A Green New Deal is still taking shape. On Saturday, Kentuckians have the opportunity to learn more about the proposed commitment to a clean energy economy, and help shape what that transition could and should look like in Kentucky.
Address the Health Impacts of Mining, Help Us Plan a Bright Future, Kentuckian Carl Shoupe Tells Congress
April 10, 2019
The immediate and long-term health impacts for people living near mountaintop removal mining are real, widespread and devastating, coalfield residente and a medical scientist told members of a U.S. House subcommittee.
ADVISORY: Poor people's hearing on protecting sacred water
January 29, 2019
To highlight the critical need to protect that nation’s water resources and in particular the Ohio River, several groups will host a Water Justice Field Hearing February 2 in Cincinnati.
KFTC issues in the News
Kentucky Utility Regulators Sue To Limit Public Records Access
January 23, 2020
Amid last year’s fight over net-metering legislation, a lobbyist working on behalf of utilities asked the regulatory agency that oversees utilities to weigh-in with a letter to lawmakers.
The Public Service Commission sent a letter to lawmakers a week later.
Kentucky bill would make it harder for formerly incarcerated people to vote
January 21, 2020
Less than a month after newly sworn-in Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed an executive order restoring the right to vote to roughly 140,000 people with felony convictions who have completed their sentences, state Republicans
Adding solar panels saved Kentucky businesses big bucks. This law might change that.
January 6, 2020
As the new year dawned, advocates of the potential economic benefits of solar energy, particularly in economically-distressed counties in Eastern Kentucky, renewed their concern over a controversial law that could dissuade businesses, individuals and non-profits from installing solar panels.
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