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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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Attorney general appoints CEOs with coal industry ties to energy planning agency

  • Liam Niemeyer

Republican Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is appointing the former CEO of electric utility East Kentucky Power Cooperative and a CEO of a barge company, both with coal industry ties, to a commission that the state legislature is looking to for advice on energy policy.  In a Friday release, Coleman said he was appointing “two […]

New York

Poll: New York voters opposed to 'radical' climate policies

  • By Chris Wade | The Center Square contributor

(The Center Square) — New Yorkers overwhelmingly oppose climate change and clean energy policies that would drive up the state's already high energy costs, according to a new poll.