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The Tennessee Valley Authority has been rapidly expanding fossil fuel infrastructure across the region and is on track to construct eight methane gas plants by the end of the decade. The buildout is part of a fossil fuel system that starts with fracking and ends with burning — a system that affects the planet and can harm the health of people living nearby.
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Kentucky finalizing ban on hunting feral swine in hopes of slowing their advance
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The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources announced Thursday that the Commonwealth’s first documented case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) had been confirmed in a deer.
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Officials with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources on Thursday confirmed the first documented case of chronic wasting disease in the Commonwealth.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority announced last week that it plans to build a methane gas plant in central Mississippi. This is the eighth proposed fossil fuel plant in just three years.
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Today, thousands of low head dams remain in Kentucky, although new power sources and transportation methods, among other societal changes, have made most of them obsolete. Worse, almost all of them present a threat to humans and the aquatic environment.
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Marion Mayor D’Anna Browning announced Monday – a little more than 18 months after the breach – on social media a plan to restabilize the earthen dam levee at Lake George.
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In the latest round of testing for forever chemicals, the Kentucky Division of Water discovered high rates in two communities. Now, municipal leaders are working with state officials to try and fix it.
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New conservation efforts are protecting the eastern gold eagle from environmental threats for the first time, according to a plan published by the Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group last week.
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A report from Earthjustice found that Kentucky produces the most carbon dioxide emissions from cryptomines of any state in the U.S.
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Data from the U.S Geological Survey shows dozens of earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone, which includes far western Kentucky and Tennessee, within the past 30 days.
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MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Following historic rainfall and flooding earlier this summer, farmers in Graves County, Kentucky sustained field damage and crop loss. That was 18 months after a tornado outbreak that killed dozens of residents -- and destroyed the grain elevators many farmers relied on to store their crops. Some in the county say that farmers with smaller operations had a harder time coping with these extreme weather events, mirroring a global pattern where smallholder farmers find it more difficult to distribute their risk and more challenging to recover when disaster strikes. Many have noticed changes in weather patterns over the years, but most also see it as a part of farming and don't have major plans to adapt their practices.