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	"author_name": "Kentucky Resources Council",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/kentucky-resources-council",
	"title": "🚨 Stop SB178: A polluter&#x27;s dream, a public health NIGHTMARE",
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	"description": "Last year, the General Assembly passed SB 89, stripping away protections for Kentucky’s groundwater sources and headwater streams that sustain our communities, ecosystems, and economy. Now, polluters are back for far more in a direct attack on public health. SB 178 (aka the “body count bill”) is a polluter’s dream and a Kentucky public health nightmare. It caps Kentucky’s ability to adopt regulations necessary to protect human health and the environment by making the federal minimum protections our ceiling, across major environmental and public health programs, including: hazardous materials, solid waste districts, historic preservation, nature preserves, scenic waterways, dams, drinking water protection, water pollution, noise control, air pollution, coal mining regulation, noncoal mining, solid waste management, sewage treatment, lead poisoning prevention, radiation control, and other public health standards. SB 178 is a direct threat to the ability of Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet and Cabinet for Health and Family Services to protect your health and your environment. The bill prohibits these agencies from adopting protections that are stronger than federal standards, making “doing the minimum” our state’s policy for protecting air, land, water, and public health, regardless of Kentucky-specific conditions, such as rural drinking water challenges, flooding risks, and industrial hotspots. If federal standards are weakened, Kentucky would be required to follow, making the federal minimum the Commonwealth’s ceiling. Where federal standards don’t exist, the bill imposes extreme scientific and evidentiary burdens on agencies that require proof of actual bodily harm before action can be taken. The bill requires a level of peer-reviewed evidence and proof of a direct causal link between exposure and actual manifested bodily harm before action may be taken that is contrary tomodern environmental and public health pactices, which set standards based on precautionary principles, rather than body counts. SB 178 is a frontal assault on human health and environmental protection. It gives away to the federal government the power to dictate how much or how little protection Kentuckians deserve from toxic chemicals, pollution, and public health risks, at the expense of our people, environment, and economy. Read more in KRC’s SB 178 Fact Sheet here. Tell your legislators to protect people over pollution and to oppose SB 178!",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-sb178"
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