Whitfield Chosen to Help Craft GOP Policy on Energy, Environment

Erica Peterson — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:02:46 +0000

First District Congressman Ed Whitfield has been tapped to lead a subcommittee at the Republican National Convention later this month, where he’ll help shape the Republican party’s stance on energy issues.

Whitfield is the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power. During his time in that position, he’s lead efforts to keep the uranium enrichment plant in Paducah open and stop the federal government from regulating coal ash.

New Law Opens Loopholes for Nuclear Energy in Kentucky

Erica Peterson — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:55:25 +0000

On paper, Kentucky has a ban on nuclear power plants. That’s still the case. But a new law opens up new ways for nuclear energy to be used in the Commonwealth.

One of the things House Bill 559 allows is the re-enrichment of depleted uranium tails. But the legislation doesn’t go very far to help the one facility in the state that has been waiting for federal approval to re-enrich uranium tools.

Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

Whitfield Chosen to Help Craft GOP Policy on Energy, Environment

New Law Opens Loopholes for Nuclear Energy in Kentucky