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Kentucky gets $10.4 million in energy funds

The U.S. Department of Energy has given Kentucky more than $10.4 million for energy-efficiency and conservation projects through the Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program.

The U.S. Department of Energy has given Kentucky more than $10.4 million for energy-efficiency and conservation projects through the Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program.

The money was allocated through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The state of Kentucky, through the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet and the Department of Local Government, will use the funding to establish programs to reduce energy usage, cut carbon pollution and create green jobs, according to a Department of Energy news release.Read Full Article

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These ‘green jobs’ are heading to China

Next time you hear politicians promising the restrictive environmental laws they’re passing will put Americans back to work in green jobs, ask the workers who make light bulbs how it’s working out for them.

Next time you hear politicians promising the restrictive environmental laws they’re passing will put Americans back to work in green jobs, ask the workers who make light bulbs how it’s working out for them.

General Electric is shuttering light bulb factories in Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, putting 400 workers off the job. Why? Because the factories make the old-style incandescent bulbs, which are being outlawed by congressional decree.

The old bulbs will be replaced by the environmentally correct compact fluorescents bulbs. But they won’t be made in GE’s American factories.Read Full Article

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