A man has been taken to the hospital after he fell into the Licking River at his place of work, River City Metals in Newport, according to Newport’s fire chief. Newport Fire Chief Frank Peluso, LINK’s media partner, WCPO, said the man was alert and conscious when he was transported; Peluso could not tell us […]
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Op-ed: A permit to pollute
Written by Newport City Commissioner Ken Rechtin Located in Newport, Kentucky, River Metals Recycling (RMR), a subsidiary of Nucor (NUE, NYSE), annually obtains a “pollution permit”. It is issued by the State of Kentucky EPA. This “pollution permit” allows RMR to pollute our air and our Licking River (for this column, I will focus on […]
