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KEF & Other KY Groups Speak Out on Coal Ash
US EPA Hearing on Its Proposed Coal Ash Rule
Louisville Tues. Sept. 28

Noted KY author, Wendell Berry spoke at a rally outside the hearing, decrying the harmful effects of toxic coal ash waste & calling for EPA to enact federal protections.

KEF Director Elizabeth Crowe participated in a march from the hearing site to the Louisville Gas & Electric building.

09.28.10 Press Release
"Concerned Citizens Demand EPA
Protections from Toxic Coal Ash"

Click image below for facts
about KY's 44 coal ash impoundments.

A new report by Earthjustice & Physicians for Social
Responsibility

"Coal Ash: The toxic threat to our health and environment"
explores the health threats posed by coal ash and specific policy demands that if followed, would result in less toxic exposures and better health.

Click on image to access report.

Coal ash is a byproduct of coal-fired power plants and is laced with highly toxic chemicals such as mercury, lead, arsenic and selenium, which have been linked to chronic diseases and developmental disorders.

KY is home to dozens of coal ash sites.

09.09.10 Press Release
New Health Report Places KY 4th Worst in Nation for
Impacts from Coal Plant Pollution
Read report released by Clean Air Task Force: "The Toll from Coal"

Ratepayers again urge USDA to revoke loan sign-off for EKPC coal plant
View letter to USDA IG

06.25.10 Press Release
Public Service Commission to investigate EKPC
and cost to build coal-burning plant

PSC News Release
06/24/10 "PSC to Review EKPC Power Plant in Clark County"

06.23.10 Press Release
Analysis: Air pollution from EKPC coal plant would
violate new EPA health standards
Sulfur emissions allowed by permit would harm
public health, increase health-care costs

Great News!!
Back to drawing board for Cash Creek coal-fired power plant's water permit (Henderson Co.)
06.10.10 Press Release

Tuesday, June 8, In Winchester
KEF speaks out at Army Corps of Engineers Hearing.
The Corps prepared the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for Smith 1, which the U.S. EPA found to be based, in part, on information that is out-of-date, inaccurate and not sufficiently comprehensive.

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Standing with KEF in opposing Smith 1,
Lekey Leidicker, Hannah Crowe and Katherine Dunn
reminded the Army Corps of Engineers that the mercury
emitted by coal-fired power plants is dangerously toxic.
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The Corps of Engineers' dredging permit and its SEIS did not adequately consider options to Smith, as required.

For example there was consideration of costs, but using years’ old data and overlooking both the longer-term health costs related to power plant emissions and the benefits of renewable energies instead.

I believe we don’t have to settle for more pollution when our health is suffering from the pollution we already have.

-- Elizabeth Crowe, KEF's Executive Director
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It seems to me we are all talking about the same things, jobs, a clean environment and affordable electricity. What we disagree on is the way to accomplish those three goals. Do we stick with antiquated and dirty technologies like coal or do we look to the cleaner technologies of the future, wind, solar, hydro, combined with energy conservation and energy efficiency.

The answer is clear. It's time to look toward a greener energy future and put dirty technologies of the past behind us.

-- Mike Hannon, a retired Supervisor for the KY State Division of Air Quality, KEF board member & Blue Grass energy customer

Another Dire EPA Review of Smith 1 Plans

06.03.10 Press Release
EPA raises concerns about air pollution, water quality & financing;
Says co-op failed to consider cleaner options than coal

EPA's Comments on Draft SEIS

EPA's letter: State didn't do sufficient job in assessing dangers of soot pollution from EKPC's Smith 1.

05.25.10 Press Release

EPA to State: Pollution permit for
coal-burning plant is deficient

KY Coal-Burners Get Challenged

KEF, KFTC, Sierra Club
05.12.10 Press Release:
"Groups challenge final air permit for controversial 'Smith' plant"

Sierra Club 05.11.10 Press Release:
"From Owensboro to Winchester: Groups challenge dirty energy"
(KY New Gas in Muhlenberg Co.,
Cash Creek in Henderson Co., and
Smith in Clark Co.)

04.26.10 Press Release
Fiscal problems compound threat to drinking water
posed by toxic coal-ash waste
Coal-plant water permit irrational in light of EKPC financial mess

04.23.10 Press Release
PSC audit: EKPC finances in need of "major changes"
Poor financial condition underscores need to scrap billion-dollar coal-burning plant

PSC's Final Report
Focused Management
and Operations Audit of East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc.

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04.19.10 Press Release
Clark Co. coal plant delay bodes well for rates & public health
EKPC’s withdrawal of debt request allows co-op to focus on cleaner, affordable energy

04.19.10 Press Release
State's rushed approval of coal plant's air permit
skirts new federal health regs

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“By sliding the Smith air permit in right before new, more protective federal standards are in place, Kentucky's DAQ is taking a huge step backward in protecting our health.”

-- Colleen Ambrose
Madison Co. Registered Nurse Practitioner

02.23.10 PRESS RELEASE:
EKPC member-ratepayers request formal review of loan
guarantees to financially strained co-op
VIEW EKPC Financial Analysis Memo
VIEW Member Letter to USDA Inspector General

02.16.10 PRESS RELEASE:
STATE AIR DIVISION CALLED ON TO DENY FAULTY POWER PLANT PERMIT; CHOOSE COST-EFFECTIVE, CLEAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS

KEF and Other Organizations Unite to Take Action for Clean Energy Policy

HOUSE BILL HB408 INTRODUCED
01.10.10 PRESS RELEASE
Fact Sheet
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Kentuckians to DAQ: Pollution
from proposed coal-burning plant would harm public health

02.05.10 PRESS RELEASE