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State and local officials didn’t begin to inform the public about the widespread PFAS pollution in Henderson until WFPL News and APM Reports broke a series of stories beginning in August.
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High levels of PFAS chemicals have contaminated a plastics recycling company in Henderson, Kentucky, spreading through the air and water and likely contaminating a creek that flows into the Ohio River, state officials say.
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Mayor: Sewage Lagoon Embankment Seeping, Residents WarnedA sewage lagoon above a small western Kentucky city is seeping through its embankment and state regulators said it's likely to fail. Smithland Mayor Bill…
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An attorney for the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet told a federal judge Wednesday that the bankrupt coal company Blackjewel has accrued nearly…
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Half of all the public drinking water systems tested in a new report from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet are showing evidence of PFAS…
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The long hot, dry spell is pushing parts of Kentucky into more severe drought conditions.The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet and the state’s…
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As drought conditions in the Commonwealth carry into their fourth week, many Judge/Executives are issuing burn bans for their counties in an effort to…
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State officials are closer to learning the cause of a massive fish kill in the Gasper River in south central Kentucky.Investigators previously found…
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The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet is opening for public comment a draft plan of how they will distribute money from Volkswagen as a part of a…
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Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet is awarding grants to expand recycling and to reduce the amount of solid waste going into landfills.According to…