The money comes from the Abandoned Mine Lands Economic Revitalization program, or AMLER. It’s been 10 years since Rogers, a veteran legislator, created the program.
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The coal company was contracted to ship 13 million tons of coal a year from a new West Coast terminal.
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Most of the money Beshear announced this week will go to the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management.
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Coal generation is expected to decline in 2026 and 2027, according to a recent federal outlook.
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In a filing, Attorney General Russell Coleman’s office says TeraWulf’s proposed data center near Ashland could help offset the cost of the Mitchell cooling tower in West Virginia.
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Sen. Robby Mills, a Henderson Republican, says state lawmakers could shorten the life of the tax breaks previously enacted for such development.
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The company says the project it is building in Hancock County will not increase electric bills.
In July, U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove ordered company associates to pay $18 million in a 2012 lawsuit filed by New London Tobacco Market and Fivemile Energy.
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Residents across Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia have packed public meetings in recent months to speak out against data centers, with a recurring concern being how they could affect the cost of electricity.
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President Donald Trump’s administration has taken aggressive steps to boost coal production, but those efforts may only have partially succeeded.
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Several Kentucky utilities have signed on to the Trump administration’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge.
The National Coal Council says the Ohio Valley Electric Corp. plants in Madison, Indiana, and Cheshire, Ohio, are efficient and economic.
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According to an affidavit, the bid for a Pike County coal business was the highest and best offer.
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New data indicates the commonwealth’s overall coal production ticked up just slightly.
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Jay Justice, the son of U.S. Sen. Jim Justice, and associate Stephen Ball, who represent Kentucky Fuel Corp., have been ordered to pay up in a case that’s stretched more than a decade.
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