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22RS HB 392

This long-standing fight for solar power is something that we WILL be addressing once we meet with City Council. If you have run out of articles to read in short a property owner would like to turn his land into a solar farm to create more renewable energy and city planning has effectively denied this request.

Lawsuit over solar farm has day in court In a civil case against Hardin Fiscal Court, Hardin Circuit Court held a hearing in an appeal regarding the denial of a conditional use permit to a solar energy company.

Welcome to the beginnings of Etown's first climate action working group! We are actively recruiting members to join the cause as we know that climate change is currently humanity's biggest threat. Climate change directly impacts marginalized communities THE MOST and we must do as much as we can to mitigate this. We feel that starting nice and easy with a carfree day is the best way to introduce folks to the harms we are currently committing. Some folks just need a nice and gentle push in the right direction and we believe this can be it here in Elizabethtown! As many of you know, automobiles are responsible for emitting much of the C02 in today's atmosphere. Your average car emits 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year according to the EPA. There are 30,000 resident in Elizabethtown. Let's conservatively assume 1/3 of them own a car. Our city alone would then emit 46,000 metric tons of C02 per year. This is a sizeable chunk polluting not only the air we breathe but spreading throughout the atmosphere. If folks in this town did not drive downtown every Sunday, we could reduce those emissions somewhat significantly. Creating a carfree space downtown every Sunday and every Second Saturday market we could not only have cleaner air but healthier citizens as they walk, run or ride bikes to their destinations. We could also have an increase in tourism and spending in the local economy as greener destinations are very attractive to travelers. There are truly no downsides to creating carfree downtown days, so let's get to work!