environment

Abandoned oil and natural gas wells are scattered throughout West Virginia and the surrounding region, leaking toxic pollutants into the atmosphere, and the state doesn’t know where all of them are.

Kentucky wildlife officials are testing whether a new generation of drone technology could become one of their most effective tools for fighting kudzu, an invasive vine that's spread across tens of thousands of acres since its introduction to the US more than a century ago.

The EPA is moving to narrow the definitions of protected waterways under the Clean Water Act, opening many waterways to pollution and destruction.

A protected wildlife corridor at Bernheim Forest and Arboretum has been cleared to make way for LG&E's Bullitt County natural gas pipeline.

President Donald Trump offered to cut coal plants a break on a significant air pollution rule.

When landowners spread sludge, PFAS can wash off fields into nearby rivers, leach into the groundwater, be absorbed by plants and pollute local drinking water.

U.S. District Judge Benjamin Beaton decided that the Biden administration rule to set climate targets for vehicles was beyond the administration’s scope. He called it “arbitrary and capricious.”

A former Eastern Kentucky coal mine is being revived into a storage facility that creates hydroelectric power. Gov. Andy Beshear joined officials on Thursday from the U.S. Department of Energy to announce the project in Bell County.

The bill would create a new state commission stacked with representatives from fossil fuel industries to review proposed power plant retirements.

The meeting at Marshall County Public Library’s Calvert City branch followed the recent release of the results of an emissions study that found elevated levels of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, originating from Westlake Vinyls in the Calvert City Industrial Complex.