KFTC Press Releases

A recently issued valley fill permit that would destroy more than three miles of streams and allow one enormous valley fill at the Stacy Branch mine along the Perry and Knott County border in eastern Kentucky was challenged today for failing to consider the health of nearby residents and others downstream, as required by the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

The Northern Kentucky chapter of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is hosting a weekend-long series of events they are calling Northern Kentucky Loves Democracy focused on voter registration and participation in the November 6 election.

This morning residents from Kentucky joined residents from three other states severely impacted by mountaintop removal coal mining in congressional office sit-ins in protest of their congressional representatives’ refusal to protect their communities from the extreme impacts of mountaintop removal. “After seven years of going in circles, asking just for basic protections for our people and being blocked by our own representatives who are supposed to be passing legislation to protect our district, we don’t see any other way,” said Teri Blanton of Hal Roger’s district in eastern Kentucky.

Following two years of delays, a coalition of groups is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in order to get the agency to finalize rules to prevent public exposure to toxic coal ash.