Feb 17 Environment Senate Committee Approves Anti-EPA Bill Tom Fitzgerald of the Kentucky Resources Council spoke against the resolution, which mostly is a symbolic protest against stepped up EPA enforcement of federal Clean Water standards regulating coal mining. “I understand your frustration," he says to the bills supporters. "My concern is just that the remedy here is really to look at changing mine design in order to address the strata that have the sulfates and carbonates, rather than provoking what I think is a federal assumption of the water program.” By Tony McVeigh Feb 17 Environment Senate Committee Approves Anti-EPA Bill Tony McVeigh
Feb 16 Environment Kentucky Lawmakers Supporting “Unenforceable” Anti-EPA Bill Republican Senator Brandon Smith, who chairs the Energy and Environment Committee, says environmental regulation is hurting Kentucky, and he's proposed legislation that would block the EPA from enforcing regulations in Kentucky. But the bill is unenforceable. By Gabe Bullard Feb 16 Environment Kentucky Lawmakers Supporting “Unenforceable” Anti-EPA Bill Gabe Bullard