KY water pollution bill advances with changes, but it still worries environmental groups
Senate Bill 89 would limit the authority of the Kentucky Division of Water at the request of the coal industry.
‘Water is life.’ Critics of pollution bill hope to change it before Kentucky House vote
The bill would narrow the definition of protected “waters of the commonwealth” used by the Kentucky Division of Water so it ...
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Tennessee’s Barrens Darter Back on Track for Endangered Species Protections
These fish should never have been denied protection in the first place.” The Barrens darter has been reduced to just a few small headwater streams that feed the Collins River between Nashville and ...
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UPDATE: Kentucky GOP passes revised water pollution bill, protecting some but not all groundwater
Environmentalists say Senate Bill 89 still guts pollution protections for streams and many drinking water supplies.
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It’s the little things that count: Meiofaunal density and production in the sediment of two headwater streams
However, microscopic benthic invertebrates (meiofauna) are often overlooked in stream production budgets. We monitored the meiofauna dwelling in the sediment at two headwater stream sites (Ems and ...
Opinion
Changes to Kentucky water pollution bill don’t make it any better | Opinion
OpEd: A House committee amendment gives the appearance of reducing the damage that will be done by SB 89, yet still fails to protect almost all rural Kentucky’s households and farms that rely on ...