@liamniemeyer.bsky.social
Reporter for the @kentuckylantern.com, focusing on Energy and Environment coverage. Tips, questions or anything else: [email protected] 📬 + Signal: niemeyer.76
@rainesford.bsky.socialReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.social"It’s the personal stories of delayed or unresolved maintenance issues — mice, cockroaches, mold and water damage — along with other issues that have pushed Evans and other tenants at seven different Shelbyville properties to form and launch a tenant union last month." By @liamniemeyer.bsky.social:
@kentuckylantern.comReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.social‘We want to fight for each other:’ Unionized Shelbyville tenants describe bugs, mold in housing.
From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social
kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/07/w...
@kentuckylantern.comReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.socialWestern Kentucky utility projects keeping its existing fossil fuel-fired power plants beyond 2050
From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social
kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/01/w...
@liamniemeyer.bsky.socialA number of speakers from across the state have voiced concerns about data centers, ranging from land use concerns to electric ratepayer protections. Only one speaker from Fayette County so far has spoken in favor of data center infrastructure, saying it'll boost AI innovation.
@liamniemeyer.bsky.socialDemocrats in the KY House are hosting a "listening session" on data centers this morning with about 50 people in a room at the state capitol attending. Various people will speak — will have a few updates throughout the speakers.
@kentuckylantern.comReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.socialBig news out of Mercer County: Officials reject regulations to allow data centers next to coal-fired power plant
From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social
kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/29/m...
@liamniemeyer.bsky.socialEliza Petzinger, her daughter, her niece, her brother, her father and her mother all live on Owen Co. farmland.
They also have alpha-gal syndrome: a tick-borne allergy to mammal products.
A local doctor said it's "spreading like wildfire": kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/29/s... @kentuckylantern.com
@kentuckylantern.comReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.social‘Spreading like wildfire’: How one KY county is grappling with a national tick-borne scourge
From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social
kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/29/s...
@kentuckylantern.comReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.socialVery excited about our first freelance story from the great Bill Estep.
Feds take on Kentucky cockfighting with multiple indictments kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/17/f...
@kentuckylantern.comReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.socialKentucky agriculture has moved beyond tobacco. Some wonder what’s been lost.
From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social
kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/17/k...
@liamniemeyer.bsky.socialThe great Bill Estep of the KY Journalism Hall of Fame has his first freelance story in the @kentuckylantern.com.
The story? More illegal cockfighting in KY. kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/17/f...
@kentuckylantern.comReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.socialBeshear directs state money to nonprofit to forgive medical debt for Kentuckians
From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social
kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/15/b...
@liamniemeyer.bsky.socialDemocratic KY Gov. Andy Beshear says he's signed an EO to direct $2.5 million to go to the national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt in an effort to erase medical debt for low-income Kentuckians. He said the first round of medical debt forgiven (over $100 million) will impact about 46,000 Kentuckians.
@kentuckylantern.comReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.socialAg Commissioner: KY policies must support cattle farmers facing ‘perfect storm of issues’
From @mckennahorsley.bsky.social
kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/14/a...
@joesonka.lpm.orgReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.socialUnfortunately, very crappy news today from me, on the McClatchy hedge fund gutting Kentucky's second-largest paper 👇
@tessaduvall.bsky.socialReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.socialAll good things must come to an end, and that includes my time at the Lexington Herald-Leader. I don’t have anything profound to say now, but I want to put out there what an honor and privilege it has been to cover my home state with this incredible crew.
@kentuckylantern.comReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.socialA Kentucky county becomes first in state to permanently ban data center construction
From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social
kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/10/a...
@mckennahorsley.bsky.socialReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.socialKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's answer to a question about former Gov. Matt Bevin's arrest last week for contempt of court. Beshear defeated Bevin in 2019.
@liamniemeyer.bsky.socialICYMI: a Burgin city council member walked out of the engine bay of the small community's fire department to stop a vote that would have advanced consideration of a proposed hyperscale data center.
"You can’t do business without a quorum." kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/09/b... @kentuckylantern.com
@kentuckylantern.comReposted by @liamniemeyer.bsky.socialData center drama:
Burgin city council member walks out to stop a vote for a proposed data center project
From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social
kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/09/b...
