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Update: Train derails in Lincoln County
dbrock@amnews.comGENEVA — Crews are continuing to monitor a train derailment that happened Monday afternoon in a rural part of Lincoln County. Lincoln Emergency Management Director Don Gilliam said 14 cars of a southbound Norfolk-Southern train carrying a total of...Tags: Local Government, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Vehicles, Emergency Incidents, Transportation Accidents
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Tri-K hopes to tap landfill energy potential
Methane gas that is released from waste at landfills is being converted into usable energy, cutting down on emissions, as well as creating profit for landfill owners. Tri-K Landfill of Stanford is a prime candidate for such a project, albeit in the...Tags: Regional Authority, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Kentucky, Puerto Rico
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Commission is looking out for Danville
In the Monday edition of The Advocate-Messenger, Mr. Ernie Moore submitted a letter to the editor that had one serious flaw. The previous commission did not have to spend an extra $4 million on the city hall as it had other options, such as renovation...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water Supply
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City tears down gate across road after complaints
dbrock@amnews.comSome real emotion at Monday’s Danville City Commission meeting led to some real time code and law enforcement action when police and fire personnel were dispatched during the meeting to take down a gate on Duncan Hill. The meeting room was full in...Tags: Lawyers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Crimes
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Fuel tanker overturns near Mitchellsburg
MITCHELLSBURG — A Boyle County highway was shut down for more than seven hours Tuesday as crews worked to clean up an overturned fuel tanker.
Police said a D&R Oil Co. truck driven by Charles Abell, 68, was eastbound on Ky. 34 three miles west of...Tags: Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Companies and Corporations
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Rally for Rivers calls for more stream protection
Sierra Club members and others concerned about water quality will gather at the Kentucky River Saturday to call on Gov. Steve Beshear to more strongly enforce the Clean Water Act. Stream protection has received recent attention because of the coal...Tags: Environmental Issues, Kentucky, Government, Mining, Water Pollution
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Cross: Clear the air over EPA's actions
FRANKFORT — To hear Kentucky politicians of both parties tell it, the Environmental Protection Agency should be renamed the Economic Destruction Agency. But their recent rhetoric has gone far beyond reality and obscured it.
At issue are the EPA&...Tags: Ed Whitfield, Water Pollution, Human Interest, Global Change, Politics
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Guynup: Congressional Republicans attacking Clean Water Act
Republicans in Congress are aggressively attacking the Clean Water Act — a landmark 1970 law created the year after Ohio’s horrifically polluted Cuyahoga River spontaneously burst into flame. Ironically, these attacks — coupled with...Tags: Ohio, Environmental Issues, Richard Nixon, Government, Facebook
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Opinion: Now is the time to fuel the green economy
With the dramatic elimination of Osama bin Laden came an important psychological boost to the American people. There is a collective sense that there’s nothing we cannot do if we set our minds to it. Along with that boost came an important upswing...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Emergency Incidents, Government, Natural Disasters, Crime, Law and Justice
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Letter to the editor: June 7, 2011
Cheap energy has high costs
Dear Editor:
Why do huge, powerful and influential energy companies feel entitled to do business as cheap as possible, take huge profits out of state and leave mass destruction behind as our legacy for our children? Why do...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy, Business Enterprises, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance
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Gies: An inexpensive fix for water woes
Our nation’s water infrastructure is aging badly: U.S. cities currently lose one-fifth of their water to leaks and suffer 1.2 trillion gallons of sewage spills annually, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office. In February, a water main in...Tags: Environmental Issues, Water Restrictions, Natural Disasters, Water Pollution, San Francisco
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Local limestone used to clear air at Mercer's E.W. Brown power plant
eruehs@amnews.comBURGIN — Last week, Kentucky Utilities asked the state Public Service Commission for a rate hike that will increase customers’ bills by 12.2 percent over the next four years. KU says it needs the additional revenue to pay for the $2.5-...Tags: Regional Authority, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Kentucky Utilities Company, Kentucky, Environmental Pollution
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