Kentucky

Kevin Butt, Toyota's regional environmental sustainability director, at a facility that uses methane to generate clean electricity to help run Toyota's auto plant in central Kentucky.

Big Business Pushes Coal-Friendly Kentucky To Embrace Renewables

6:33pm April 17, 2017

by Jennifer Ludden

Nearly 90 percent of Kentucky's electricity is from coal — the cheap energy source that helped build its manufacturing economy. Now it's struggling to respond as more businesses want clean energy.

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Toyota's plant in Georgetown, Ky., is its largest in the world. In this photo from 2010, an employee installs an accelerator into a new Camry at the plant.

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Toyota Plans $1.3 Billion Investment In Kentucky Plant

11:19am April 10, 2017

by Bill Chappell

The Georgetown, Ky., facility is Toyota's largest plant in the world. Toyota plans to invest $10 billion in the U.S. over the next five years.

Martin County relies on a water treatment plant that was built in 1968.

Kentucky Community Hopes Trump Infrastructure Plan Will Fix Water System

8:49am March 13, 2017

by Benny Becker

In Martin County, the drinking water comes from a river contaminated by sewage and years of coal and gas extraction. Residents hope a new federal focus on infrastructure will help them fix the system.

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At the Grace Community Health Center in Manchester, Ky., psychologist Joan Nantz meets with patient Ramiro Salazar, who gained Medicaid under the expansion.

In Depressed Rural Kentucky, Worries Mount Over Medicaid Cutbacks

4:27pm November 19, 2016

by Phil Galewitz

People in poverty-stricken Clay County, Kentucky, worry about what will happen to their health care if Gov. Matt Bevin's and President-elect Trump's ambitions to overhaul Medicaid proceed.

Kentucky Governor Can't Cut Universities' Budgets, Court Rules

3:59pm September 22, 2016

by Bill Chappell

The case is one of three lawsuits the state's Democratic attorney general has filed against Republican Gov. Matt Bevin since Bevin was sworn in last December.

Former coal miners are trained as linesmen in a program co-sponsored by the Hazard Community and Technical College and the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program in Hazard, Ky.

Eastern Kentucky Tries To Keep Former Coal Miners From Leaving

5:03am September 05, 2016

by Jim Zarroli

For a long time, coal was king in eastern Kentucky. But the industry today is hemorrhaging jobs. The region is now struggling to rebuild its economy and find new jobs for unemployed miners.

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More Than A Dozen Rescued From Kentucky Cave

7:29pm May 26, 2016

by Dana Farrington

Floodwaters trapped the cavers on Thursday. Four managed to escape, and then 19 more finally made it out in the evening.

Why Sanders Requested A 'Recanvass' And Not A 'Recount' In Kentucky

4:22pm May 24, 2016

by Domenico Montanaro

Bottom line: It's cheaper. No actual votes will be tallied, and the difference in delegates might only be one or two even if all the votes were counted and Sanders won.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses the crowd during a campaign rally in Bowling Green, Ky., on Monday.

Sanders Wins Oregon; Clinton Appears To Eke Out A Victory In Kentucky

11:42pm May 17, 2016

by Jessica Taylor

With nearly all votes counted, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders in the Kentucky Democratic primary by almost 1,800 votes.

Software coders (from left) William Stevens, Michael Harrison and Brack Quillen work at the Bit Source office in Pikeville, Ky., in February. The year-old firm has trained laid-off coal workers to become software coders.

From Coal To Code: A New Path For Laid-Off Miners In Kentucky

7:15pm May 06, 2016

by Erica Peterson

The state's coal industry is shrinking fast; more than 10,000 workers have lost their jobs since 2008. A small firm in eastern Kentucky is turning unemployed coal workers into software developers.

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