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How a small town in Kentucky revitalized its struggling Main Street...

A town of 7,300 in southeastern Kentucky has revitalized its downtown through a local-food renaissance. Corbin's main street, once filled with vacant buildings and...

Supreme Court blocks Obama’s Clean Power Plan pending a lower appellate...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan "until a lower court has resolved the legal case against it," Curtis Tate reports...

It’s time for MSD to reinvest the $4 million it skimmed...

As far as I can tell, Louisville's Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) owes Smoketown at least four million dollars. Let me tell you why. On November 16,...

EPA report shows that methane emissions down, greenhouse gas emissions rising

Oil and gas industry greenhouse gas emissions are on the rise, but methane leakage continues to fall, according to an Environmental Protection Agency report...

This new map compares breathing bad air to smoking cigarettes

Most people who don’t smoke have a visceral reaction to the smell. I was in Maysville last fall and went into a restaurant where...

Cutting carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 could prevent thousands...

The Obama administration's proposed rules to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2030 from existing power plants based on emission levels from 2005 "would...

Louisville ranks well among mid-size cities with Energy Star–rated buildings

Energy Star, a joint program of the EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy, has released its 2015 rankings for cities with Energy Star–rated...

Retrofitting The Suburbs Of Bardstown Road

Suburban Louisville is headed back to the drawing boards. Metro Louisville is trying to figure out how to retrofit the suburban fringe of Jefferson...