With a focus on providing clean, dependable drinking water to Kentucky families, water utilities have looked to regionalization of water services with remarkable results. Since 2000, the total number of public water systems in Kentucky has decreased 55 percent. Systems are working together to solve area water concerns and are realizing regionalization can increase efficiency, better protect the environment and increases a community’s capacity for economic development.
If you’ve been to a local playground with a crumb rubber surface over the last 20 years, it’s very possible Lisa Evans had a hand in it. Evans has worked with the Energy and Environment Cabinet’s Crumb Rubber-Tire Derived Products Grant for the past two decades
by Kirsten Delamarter When the Kentucky Government Recycling Section (KGRS) received nearly 3,500 bankers boxes of documents for disposal earlier this year, Environmental Scientist Advisor Brian Bentley and his colleagues saw an opportunity to make a difference. Sure, the boxes could be recycled, Bentley thought, but they could […]