Kentucky halts authorization allowing discharge of industrial wastewater to Green River

Kentucky halted plan to pour millions of gallons of industrial wastewater into river hours after KRC, Environmental Integrity Project, and other groups notified state officials of our intention to bring a civil lawsuit for violating the Clean Water Act if the discharge came to pass. A subsidiary of LG&E had plans to discharge 4.5 million gallons of wastewater from an old coal loading site outside Sebree, Kentucky, into the Green River. The company was given “off-permit authorization” from Kentucky's Division of Water via a controversial program we believe violates the Clean Water Act. Read our Notice of Intent to Sue letter here. Learn more about this clean water win: https://www.courier-journal.com/.../green.../74102245007/