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Executives for two Kentucky manufacturers told lawmakers Thursday they were committed to clean energy alternatives and reducing carbon emissions. One Republican warned against “blindly” following federal policy initiatives.

Fifteen years after the EPA said greenhouse gasses are a danger to public health, the agency finalized rules to limit climate-warming pollution from existing coal and new gas power plants.

For decades, miners have called for limits on highly toxic silica dust, which they're exposed to while mining. An investigation shows its impact and the weakness of proposed rules to protect them.

New data shows that more than 1,500 miners have been diagnosed with a deadly lung disease linked to toxic silica dust found in coal mines — and Kentucky clinics may be seeing the most cases. After years of inaction, federal mine regulators are finally proposing to crack down on silica dust exposure, but will it be enough?

Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to a trade association that’s pushing back on proposed rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from gas and coal-fired power plants. LG&E officials say their position is in alignment with the trade association.

Jefferson County, Kentucky, had the country’s third highest number of premature deaths due to particulate pollution from coal-fired power plants, according to a new report from the Sierra Club.

A half-dozen power plants in Kentucky are storing toxic coal ash in or near groundwater and may have to remove it in order to comply with federal regulations designed to protect people’s health and the environment.

Hunter Hobson is the CEO of INMET, which owns the Harlan County mine where a 33 year-old miner died last month.

Environmental and consumer groups have pushed for the early closure of a 50-year-old coal-fired power plant in West Virginia that serves electricity…

Appalachian coal emits more than a million tons of methane a year, and the region is the largest U.S. source of the potent greenhouse gas.