09-02-2025
Daily briefing: Thousands in Louisville live close to plants handling risky chemicals
Daily briefing: Thousands in Louisville live close to plants handling risky chemicals
Good morning, Louisville! Happy Super Bowl Sunday! (You can read today's version of the eNewspaper here.)
Today we can expect it to be mostly cloudy with a high near 42.
Here are the top headlines:
Thousands of Louisville residents live close to industrial facilities handling high quantities of hazardous chemicals, The Courier Journal found in an analysis of local and federal data.
This development pattern — a relic of Louisville's industrial heritage — leaves only a few hundred feet and a chain link fence between homes and some of the city's most high-risk industrial operations.
About 1 in 50 Louisville residents, more than 16,000 people, live in the same census block group as Risk Management Program facilities, which are designated by federal regulations for handling 'flammable or extremely hazardous chemicals.'
Read more from Courier Journal reporter Connor Giffin.
In other news:
JCPS: Jefferson County Public Schools will implement a nontraditional instruction day Monday due to rising absences from illness, district spokesperson Carolyn Callahan said in a statement. Learn more here.
Jefferson County Public Schools will implement a nontraditional instruction day Monday due to rising absences from illness, district spokesperson Carolyn Callahan said in a statement. Learn more here. Politics: The Kentucky legislature passed — and Gov. Andy Beshear signed — House Bill 1, which reduces the state's individual income tax from 4% to 3.5%. Find out more.
The Kentucky legislature passed — and Gov. Andy Beshear signed — House Bill 1, which reduces the state's individual income tax from 4% to 3.5%. Find out more. McConnell: Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell is "fine" after reportedly falling Wednesday in the Senate in Washington, D.C., a spokesperson said. Read more here.
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We'll be back tomorrow with more headlines.
Have a great week ahead,
Stephanie
