Category: Environmental Stewardship
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An Ode to Wendell Berry: A True Kentucky Steward
R. M. True Yesterday, while holding my daughter less than a day after her birth, I learned that Wendell Berry had passed away. The timing was difficult to ignore, though perhaps not for the reasons one might expect. Death and birth are often pressed into service as symbols, and perhaps there is some truth in…
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The Kentucky Steward Enters Professional Services Agreement With Trimble County
R. M. True | Founder, Managing Director In September, The Kentucky Steward LLC entered into a professional services agreement with Trimble County, assuming a technical advisory role to support the county’s infrastructure planning and development efforts. This partnership includes direct consultation with the Fiscal Court and Planning and Zoning Committee, with a particular focus on…
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Opposition to “Anti-Kentucky” Senate Bill 89: A Review of Kentucky Groundwater Contamination and Call for Fellow Stewards
The Kentucky Steward LLC, R. M. True “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” The Kentucky Steward testifies to the House Standing Committee of Natural Resources and Environment in Opposition to SB 89 On March 12, 2025 The Kentucky Steward testified to the House Standing Committee of Natural Resources…
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The Kentucky Steward’s Opposition to SB 89: A Bill of Unethical Stewardship
Senate Bill 89 (SB 89) is not an issue of pro-coal industry or anti-coal industry, just as it is not pro-landfill or anti-landfill, or their like. This is a pro-environment or anti-environment bill, which in simpler terms, can be justly considered pro-Kentucky or anti-Kentucky. SB 89 proposes to redefine the waters of the Commonwealth, stripping…
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Shared Victory Embodies Ethical Stewardship of Local Environment and Blueprint for State Reform
The Kentucky Steward LLC, R. M. True Victory Against the Malpractice of Biosolids Landfarming On September 26, 2024 the Trimble County, KY Board of Adjustments (BOA) denied a conditional land use application that proposed the spreading of human septic waste on hay fields. This decision represents a watershed moment for the community’s environmental stewardship. This…
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Opposition to the Malpractice of Biosolids Landfarming in Areas of Environmental and Community Concern
The Kentucky Steward LLC, R. M. True An Op-ed, as Published in The Madison Courier & The Trimble Banner | September 20, 2024 | Expanded Report embedded below CALL FOR STEWARDSHIP On September 26, 2024 the Board of Adjustments (BOA) of Trimble County, KY will either approve or deny a conditional use permit application that…