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Jessamine County Health Department says 40 percent of county homes tested are high in radon
mmoore@jessaminejournal.comIt’s no secret that smoking is the number-one cause of lung cancer in America, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The second-leading cause, according to the CDC, is something that can affect people without them even...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Disease Prevention, Respiratory Disease, Environmental Issues
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Danville water treatment plant project advances
smojica@amnews.comDanville officials anticipate the water plant expansion project will be available for contractors to bid upon by early July. Brent Tippey of HDR — the firm managing the $28 million project — gave a funding update at Monday’s City...Tags: Property, Water Supply, Environmental Issues, Real Estate Sellers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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EDITORIAL: Governments shouldn't foot part of environmental clean-up bill
In light of the economic doldrums Boyle and other counties have experienced in recent years, it was downright thrilling to hear even sketchy details about Corning Inc.'s plans for their once and future factory on Valksdahl Road. We are preliminarily...Tags: Corning Incorporated, Environmental Cleanup, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Pollution
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After 43 years, people still celebrating Earth Day
Happy Earth Day 43. It’s been 43 years since the first Earth Day celebration took place in 1970. Earth Day was founded by Gaylord Nelson, who, in 1970, was the Democratic senator from Wisconsin. In January 1969, he witnessed the devastation caused...
Tags: Conservation, Arts and Culture, Libraries, Earth Day, Wildlife
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New wastewater plant in Winchester to meet deadline
This is the closest the City of Winchester and the Winchester Municipal Utilities have come to a consent decree deadline, but the Lower Howard’s Creek Waste Water Treatment Plant will still be operating prior to the Jan. 1 deadline. Flow will be...
Tags: Water Supply, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mike Flynn
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Governor has done nothing to help Kentucky
Right now, we have focused our attention on Washington and have forgotten the problems that we have growing in our state. Governor Steve Beshear has sat on his hands and done nothing but watch our state decline. We’ve had over 9,000 miners put out...Tags: Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Executive Branch, Government, Steve Beshear
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State close to seeking plan from Philips for cleanup
dbrock@amnews.comState officials say they are close to asking Philips Lighting to submit plans to clean up contamination on and around the site of its now-vacant light manufacturing facility in Danville. Since the plant on Valksdahl Avenue closed in February 2011, the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Waste Management and Pollution Control, Environmental Cleanup, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
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25 years ago: Nov. 9, 2012
Nov. 9, 1987 Winchester Municipal Utilities has paid more than $150,000 to two Washington firms and a local attorney in the defense of a lawsuit filed by the Environmental Protection Agency. WMU General Manager Dick Lewis released the litigation expenses...
Tags: Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Picking four for Danville: Seven seeking seats in hot commission race
smojica@amnews.comDanville voters will elect four city commissioners Tuesday. Incumbents James “J.H.” Atkins, Kevin Caudill, Gail Louis and Ryan Montgomery are trying to retain their seats but face challenges from former commissioners Janet Hamner and Paige...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Martin Luther King Jr., American Red Cross, Public Officials, Soccer
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Winchester, WMU borrow $1M for sewers
The Winchester Board of Commissioners approved a resolution to borrow $1 million for the Bel-Air sanitary sewer improvements during its regular meeting earlier this week. The loan will come from the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority, or KIA, and will...
Tags: Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mike Flynn
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Public gets chance to see final plans for sewer plant in Clark County
The Winchester SunWinchester Municipal Utilities is entering the home stretch on the Lower Howards Creek Wastewater Treatment plant. A public meeting for the final plan presentation for the plant is set for 6 p.m. Thursday at the Clark County Extension Office in the...Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Philips plant: Resident asks Danville to create committee to monitor cleanup
smojica@amnews.comA Danville resident suggested during Monday’s City Commission meeting that officials create a citizens committee to oversee the remediation of the old Philips Lighting plant on Vaksdahl Avenue. Carl Beckman, who also has roots in Cincinnati,...Tags: Greenpeace, Environmental Cleanup, Science and Technology, Water Supply, Environmental Issues
May 8, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 22, 2013
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Jan 11, 2013
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Dec 14, 2012
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Nov 15, 2012
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Nov 9, 2012
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Nov 3, 2012
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Oct 19, 2012
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Oct 10, 2012
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Oct 9, 2012
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