FRANKFORT — Hours after a House committee declared Kentucky a "sanctuary state" from federal fossil fuel environmental regulations Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear announced a $1.3 billion project converting coal mine
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The Kentucky House voted Monday to allow the state's smallest coal mining operations to reduce the number of miners with emergency medical training assigned for each underground shift. The bill's critics warned it would roll back an important safeguard enacted years ago following a Kentucky mining fatality. “It truly troubles me to think that we could potentially be trading the safety of our coal mining families for what appears to be a nominal financial benefit, if anything at all,” said Democratic state Rep. Ashley Tackett Laferty, who represents a coal-producing region in eastern Kentucky.