Morgan Watkins
Health and environment reporter for Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting.Morgan covers health and the environment for LPM's Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. Email Morgan at mwatkins@lpm.org and follow her on Bluesky @morganwatkins.lpm.org.
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President Donald Trump offered to cut coal plants a break on a significant air pollution rule. -
Addiction Recovery Care, or ARC, runs over 30 treatment centers in Kentucky. Now it’s under federal scrutiny. -
The Kentucky Legislature outlawed gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender children last year. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court will scrutinize a ruling that has kept that law in effect. -
Kentuckians can utilize early voting options later this week ahead of the May 21 primary race. -
Spring is heating up across Kentucky, and low-income families can get help paying their air-conditioning bill through a seasonal program. -
A new Kentucky law will limit which nicotine vapes businesses can sell. But a lawsuit claims it’s unconstitutional because it will restrict hemp-derived and cannabis vapes, too. -
Republicans scrapped a contentious change to the otherwise broadly supported “momnibus” bill on Monday. That cleared its path to becoming law. -
Carrying naloxone can be a literal lifesaver for someone experiencing an opioid overdose. Kentucky’s state government set up a website to help people find local providers. -
Kentucky Senate GOP backtracks after citing retracted COVID paper to support ban on vaccine mandatesResearch shows COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. But Kentucky Senate Republicans falsely suggested they aren’t while promoting a ban on vaccine mandates this week. -
House Bill 367 got the Kentucky House of Representatives’ approval last month but still needs the Senate’s OK. The bill would tighten eligibility requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
