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Data centers are not the answer to Kentucky’s industrial and economic woes

  • Lane Boldman

When Kentucky’s biggest data center project eyes a former steel mill in Eastern Kentucky, and one of the few remaining aluminum smelters in the United States is sold for conversion into a data center, it may sound like reuse and reinvestment. But for workers, manufacturers, and Kentucky families who are already navigating rising electric bills, […]

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AG asks federal court to halt construction of Oklahoma aluminum smelter

  • Emma Murphy

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s attorney general on Tuesday asked a federal court to block construction in Inola of what would be the largest aluminum smelter in the country.  Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who in June sued to stop construction of the smelter over concerns of foreign ownership and severe pollution in northeastern Oklahoma, filed the […]

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Aluminum smelter study denied, Oklahoma lawmaker claims censorship

  • Emma Murphy

OKLAHOMA CITY — A House lawmaker said Wednesday that a fellow Republican has blocked his efforts to hold a study at the Capitol to probe a controversial aluminum smelter that the Trump administration wants to build in his hometown. Rep. Tom Gann, R-Inola, said House Speaker Kyle Hilbert, R-Bristow, denied his request to hold an […]