March 2024 – Land, Air & Water

A Simple Switch for Storm Resiliency

By Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet on March 29, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

By Robin Hartman Source: Rob Blair (EEC) – Map showing pump station distribution, color-coded based on auxiliary power availability. Immediately following the devastating floods in Eastern Kentucky in June 2022, power outages or storm damage left 22 drinking water systems and 18 wastewater systems without service. It took […]

Maxey Flats: Protecting the Public Means EEC Oversight for Another Century

By Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet on March 15, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

By Clay Wallace Beneath a grassy hill, just 10 miles northwest of Morehead, lies more than 4.5 million cubic feet of radioactive waste – enough to fill 64 Olympic swimming pools. The original 280-acre site is nearly indistinguishable from any of the other fields atop the flat ridges […]