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CHAMPAIGN, Ill.-- The state department in charge of mine safety lacked enough safety inspectors to comply with Illinois law in 2011 and 2012, according to an audit of the agency released Thursday.
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Steve Beshear has signed legislation intended to shore up Kentucky's financially troubled pension plan for government retirees. The legislation would provide nearly $100 million a year to make the state's required contribution to the pension plans of state government employees.
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WASHINGTON, March 29- President Barack Obama pitched the first major environmental effort of his second term on Friday in a bid to slash smog-forming emissions from gasoline that have been linked to lung and heart ailments, setting up a fight with Republicans and the oil industry.
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*EPA to announce rules to lower emissions on Friday. *EPA: every $1 in industry costs would cut $7 from health bills. In addition, the American Petroleum Institute, the main energy industry lobbying group, has said the rules could increase refinery operating costs by up to 9 cents per gallon.
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NEW YORK, March 28- Century Aluminum Co returned to the negotiating table this week in its efforts to find affordable electricity to run its Hawesville, Kentucky, aluminum smelter after a failed attempt to lower its costs with legislation.
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DETROIT, March 28- The United Auto Workers union said on Thursday it added members for the third straight year in 2012, as it organized workers from casinos as well as auto parts companies in Alabama and Kentucky, the union said on Thursday. The union is active in trying to organize workers at two Tennessee auto plants and one in Mississippi.
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Florida tops the list of zombie properties with 90,556 vacant homes in foreclosure, according to a foreclosure inventory released on Thursday by RealtyTrac, a real estate information company in Irvine, California. Illinois and California ranked a distant second and third with 31,668 and 28,821 zombie properties respectively on the list.
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FRANKFORT, Ky.-- Kentucky is reporting that jobless rates improved in 91 counties in February. Fayette, Franklin, Madison, Oldham and Shelby counties all had jobless rates of between 6.5 and 6.9 percent. Fulton County in far western Kentucky reported a 15.9 percent jobless rate.
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FRANKFORT, Ky.-- Agriculture Commissioner James Comer will lead a Kentucky delegation to Washington to ask for an exemption to allow farmers in his state to grow industrial hemp. Hemp thrived in Kentucky generations ago but was banned after the federal government classified it as a controlled substance. Comer has said hemp could be an economic boon for Kentucky.
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Another key component of the act is a possible change to Medicaid _ states can decide whether to expand the federal-state program that helps pay for health care for the poor and disabled. According to the Society of Actuaries report, if Kentucky opts to expand Medicaid, the cost of claims will go up 32 percent.
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FRANKFORT, Ky.-- Kentucky lawmakers have voted to override the governor's veto of a bill intended to better protect legal claims of religious freedom. Steve Beshear vetoed the bill Friday over concerns that someone's claim of religious freedom could undermine civil rights protections for gays and lesbians and lead to costly lawsuits for taxpayers.
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FRANKFORT, Ky.-- Negotiations have broken down on a bill that would allow Kentucky to quickly license hemp growers if the federal government ever lifts a ban on the crop, a legislative leader said Monday.
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Traditional phone providers such as AT&T argue the requirement is outdated and unfair, burdening them as they compete with wireless and cable companies that offer phone service but lack the same regulation.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala.-- The U.S. Justice Department says Montgomery- based Caddell Construction has agreed to pay the government $1.15 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act.
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Steve Beshear had pitched the idea of making several changes to the tax code to generate about $110 million a year in funding for the pension system. To offset that revenue increase, the proposal called for lawmakers to roll back the gas tax by 2 cents per gallon, cutting revenue by $61 million a year that would go the Road Fund.
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FRANKFORT, Ky.-- Legislative leaders are working on a potential deal that would eliminate a standard $20 personal income tax credit for Kentuckians in a move that could generate some $65 million a year to shore up the financially troubled pension system for government retirees.
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FRANKFORT, Ky.-- A compromise could be near on a bill that would allow Kentucky to quickly license hemp growers if the federal government ever lifts a ban on the crop, a legislative leader said Monday.
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March 25- Rhino Resource Partners LP:. *Source text: LEXINGTON, Ky., March 25, 2013/ PRNewswire/-- With deepest sorrow, Rhino Resource Partners LP reports that our friend and co-worker, Elam Derk Jones, an employee of Castle Valley Mining LLC in Emery County, Utah, was fatally injured in a roof fall at Mine #4 on Friday, March 22, 2013 at approximately 3:05 local time.
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COVINGTON, Ky.-- Chemical company Ashland Inc. said Monday that Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Lamar M. Chambers will retire in July. Chambers will have served 37 years at Ashland Inc. upon his retirement. Shares of Ashland, based in Covington, Ky., fell $1.59, or 2.1 percent, to $74.75 in afternoon trading.
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The Senate on Saturday adopted its first budget in four years, a $3.7 trillion blueprint for 2014 that would fast-track passage of tax increases, trim spending gingerly and leave the government still deeply in debt. The NYT reports.