Liam Niemeyer
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Reporter for the @kentuckylantern.com, focusing on Energy and Environment coverage. Tips, questions or anything else: lniemeyer@kentuckylantern.com 📬 + Signal: niemeyer.76
Burgin council members paid a price for their data center support. They weren’t the only ones. From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/11/04/b...
Burgin council members paid a price for their data center support. They weren't the only ones. • Kentucky Lantern
Some Kentucky politicians felt voter anger over data centers on Election Day.
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I'm in downtown Lexington, KY this evening for the @kentuckylantern.com at the campaign night gathering for Andy Barr, a Congressman and Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Kentucky. Few people have arrived so far, and the last polls don't close in KY until 7 p.m. ET. Stay tuned for updates.
Hard to believe I have a non-election news story to share on Election Day, but here it is: kentuckylantern.com/2026/11/03/k... @kentuckylantern.com
KY economic incentive board creates new requirements for data centers tax breaks • Kentucky Lantern
Hyperscale data center developers are eyeing a potentially massive, controversial sales tax break passed by Kentucky state lawmakers, but they might have to meet a number of requirements recently outl...
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This is not an election story! But it's a very interesting one about another favorite topic. From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social KY economic incentive board creates new requirements for data centers tax breaks kentuckylantern.com/2026/11/03/k...
KY economic incentive board creates new requirements for data centers tax breaks • Kentucky Lantern
Hyperscale data center developers are eyeing a potentially massive, controversial sales tax break passed by Kentucky state lawmakers, but they might have to meet a number of requirements recently outl...
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A WKY agency is wielding eminent domain for a gas pipeline. Landowners say they’re being bullied. From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/11/02/a...
A WKY agency is wielding eminent domain for a gas pipeline. Landowners say they’re being bullied. • Kentucky Lantern
Greg Davenport says he’s not opposed to progress. But he has serious misgivings when it comes to a proposed 16-inch natural gas pipeline that a public agency wants to run through his family’s Christia...
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What if you hold an election and candidates don’t show up? From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/29/w...
What if you hold an election and candidates don’t show up? • Kentucky Lantern
It started as an idea years ago among his buddies: Why not be the mayor?
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Kentucky AG says public funding can be used to fund school resource officers at private schools From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/22/k...
Kentucky AG says public funding can be used to fund school resource officers at private schools • Kentucky Lantern
Republican Kentucky Attorney General Russel Coleman says it is constitutional to use public, county funding to fund the placement of school resource officers at private schools, according to a legal o...
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"Still, whether or not American leaders formally participate in international climate efforts, the effects of America's reliance on oil, gas and coal are being felt around the world, the U.N. warns." www.lpm.org/news/2026-10... @rhersher.bsky.social @npr.org
United Nations report highlights significant increase in U.S. climate pollution
The U.S. is the only major economy where planet-warming pollution dramatically increased last year. The United Nations warns the planet is on track for catastrophic warming.
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Startup proposes massive nuclear power plant campus in Lewis County From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/21/s...
Startup proposes massive nuclear power plant campus in Lewis County • Kentucky Lantern
A Lexington-based nuclear energy startup is proposing to build a massive nuclear power plant complex along the Ohio River in Lewis County, which, if fully realized, would be the largest nuclear power ...
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A Lexington-based nuclear startup is proposing to build in Lewis County the first nuclear power plants in Kentucky — what would be the largest nuclear power plant site in the entire country. kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/21/s... @kentuckylantern.com
Startup proposes massive nuclear power plant campus in Lewis County • Kentucky Lantern
A Lexington-based nuclear energy startup is proposing to build a massive nuclear power plant complex along the Ohio River in Lewis County, which, if fully realized, would be the largest nuclear power ...
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This is just an awesome project, celebrating an influential piece of Kentucky history and culture, that our public radio partners put together. You can hear it here👇📻
WKMS@wkmsfm.bsky.social · 3w ago“Harlan County USA at 50," a new audio special from WKMS and the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, is now available online! Listen to learn more about Barbara Kopple's transformative documentary "Harlan County USA" and its lasting impacts on Kentuckians, artists and labor movements.
Proposed Mason County data center could get $50 million annual tax break, think tank estimates kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/16/p... @kentuckylantern.com
Proposed Mason County data center could get $50 million annual tax break, think tank estimates • Kentucky Lantern
A proposed Mason County data center campus for the technology company Meta could avoid paying about $50 million a year in local taxes.
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Proposed Mason County data center could get $50 million annual tax break, think tank estimates From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/16/p...
Proposed Mason County data center could get $50 million annual tax break, think tank estimates • Kentucky Lantern
A proposed Mason County data center campus for the technology company Meta could avoid paying about $50 million a year in local taxes.
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Beshear issues executive order seeking to overhaul KentuckyWired board From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/15/b...
Beshear issues executive order seeking to overhaul KentuckyWired board • Kentucky Lantern
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has issued an executive order overhauling the board overseeing the state’s broadband network KentuckyWired, throwing another wrench into a conten...
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Democratic KY Gov. Andy Beshear has issued an EO overhauling the board overseeing the state’s broadband network KentuckyWired, throwing another wrench into a contentious lawsuit the network is entangled in. This story will be updated. kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/15/b... @kentuckylantern.com
Beshear issues executive order seeking to overhaul KentuckyWired board • Kentucky Lantern
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has issued an executive order overhauling the board overseeing the state’s broadband network KentuckyWired, throwing another wrench into a conten...
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If you haven't already, take the time today to read this really compelling story from Hopkinsville. @kentuckylantern.com founding editor @jamielucke.bsky.social with the byline: kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/12/k...
‘Killing him over and over’: A Hopkinsville mom’s battle for the truth about her son’s death • Kentucky Lantern
She didn’t know it at the time, but on that night almost three years ago, Nancy Tucker was beginning an odyssey to uncover the circumstances of her son’s death.
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Kentucky Lantern founder @jamielucke.bsky.social brings us this compelling story ‘Killing him over and over’: A Hopkinsville mom’s battle for the truth about her son’s death kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/12/k...
‘Killing him over and over’: A Hopkinsville mom’s battle for the truth about her son’s death • Kentucky Lantern
She didn’t know it at the time, but on that night almost three years ago, Nancy Tucker was beginning an odyssey to uncover the circumstances of her son’s death.
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"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:
'We want to fight for each other': Unionized Shelbyville tenants describe bugs, mold in housing. • Kentucky Lantern
Mice, cockroaches, mold and water damage have pushed Evans and other tenants at seven different Shelbyville properties to form and launch a tenant union last month.
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‘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...
'We want to fight for each other:' Unionized Shelbyville tenants describe bugs, mold in housing. • Kentucky Lantern
Mice, cockroaches, mold and water damage have pushed Evans and other tenants at seven different Shelbyville properties to form and launch a tenant union last month.
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Western Kentucky utility projects keeping its existing fossil fuel-fired power plants beyond 2050 From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/01/w...
Western Kentucky utility projects keeping its existing fossil fuel-fired power plants beyond 2050 • Kentucky Lantern
An electric utility serving Western Kentucky counties is telling the state regulator it anticipates keeping its existing coal-fired and natural gas-fired power plants open beyond 2050, a projection am...
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Democrats 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.
Big 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...
Mercer County officials reject regulations to allow data centers next to coal-fired power plant • Kentucky Lantern
HARRODSBURG — The Mercer County Fiscal Court rejected zoning regulations on Monday that would have allowed the siting of large data centers on land adjacent to a Kentucky Utilities coal-fired power pl...
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Eliza 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
‘Spreading like wildfire’: How one KY county is grappling with a national tick-borne scourge • Kentucky Lantern
Alpha-gal syndrome is yet another illness connected to ticks that's continuing to emerge in Kentucky.
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‘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...
‘Spreading like wildfire’: How one KY county is grappling with a national tick-borne scourge • Kentucky Lantern
Alpha-gal syndrome is yet another illness connected to ticks that's continuing to emerge in Kentucky.
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Very 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...
Feds take on Kentucky cockfighting with multiple indictments • Kentucky Lantern
Federal authorities have charged five people in Kentucky in connection with cockfighting in cases that show the state remains a key player in the illegal activity, according to animal-welfare groups.
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Kentucky agriculture has moved beyond tobacco. Some wonder what’s been lost. From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/17/k...
Kentucky agriculture has moved beyond tobacco. Some wonder what’s been lost. • Kentucky Lantern
More than 60,000 farms grew tobacco in the 1990s to now less than 1,000 as of 2022, according to federal agriculture census data.
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The 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...
Feds take on Kentucky cockfighting with multiple indictments • Kentucky Lantern
Federal authorities have charged five people in Kentucky in connection with cockfighting in cases that show the state remains a key player in the illegal activity, according to animal-welfare groups.
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Beshear directs state money to nonprofit to forgive medical debt for Kentuckians From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/15/b...
Beshear directs state money to nonprofit to forgive medical debt for Kentuckians • Kentucky Lantern
Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is directing $2.5 million in state funding meant for housing to a national nonprofit with plans to forgive outstanding medical debt for tens of thousands of low-i...
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Democratic 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.