Central and Western Kentucky
Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Danville, Owensboro, Paducah, KY
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Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Danville, Owensboro, Paducah, KY
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All cities north of Lexington and Louisville to the Ohio River plus some areas in the Eastern Kentucky mountains: Covington, Walton, Newport, Florence, Highland Heights, Union, Ft. Thomas, Ft. Mitchell, Alexandria

For most of April, CCL’s Appalachia Regional Coordinator Jon Clark traveled across Tennessee and Kentucky on Earth Week outreach tours.
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The new members are Representatives Bill Posey (R-FL), Robert “Bobby” Scott (D-VA), Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and John Yarmuth…
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From July 10-13, CCL's Southeast Director Don Addu traveled to four Kentucky cities to discuss market-based climate solutions. Here's how it went.
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Kentucky State Coordinator
Manuel "Manolo" Matos was born in Utuado, Puerto Rico and has lived in Kentucky since 2002. He's a father of 3, an environmental scientist, a SCUBA instructor and a podcaster. Through CCL, he works to build relationships across communities and languages, and advocate for practical, bipartisan climate solutions.
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CCL’s mission is focused on advancing effective climate solutions at the federal level, so your local chapter meets with Kentucky’s representatives and senators in the U.S. Congress.
Our state is experiencing floods due an increase of severe weather events and forest fires in the Appalachia region. We are also experiencing average summer temperatures 2°F higher than in the 1970’s and double the number of days with a heat index of more than 100°F when compared to 20 years ago.