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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Kentucky Newsletter for Friday April 19, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Disabled American Veterans: All World War II Veterans are Now Eligible for VA Health Care
ERLANGER, Kentucky, April 19 -- Disabled American Veterans issued the following news: On Nov. 10, 2023, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that all World War II veterans are now eligible for no-cost VA health care. Under this expansion, anyone who served between Dec. 7, 1941, and Dec. 31, 1946, will not have to pay inpatient or outpatient copays, enrollment fees or monthly premiums. While veterans will no longer have to pay inpatient or outpatient copays, they may still have to pay m  more

Environmental Defense Fund: EPA's Clean Car Standards are Legally Sound and Will Save Lives
NEW YORK, April 19 (TNSres) -- The Environmental Defense Fund issued the following statement on April 18, 2024, by Alice Henderson, director and lead counsel for transportation and clean air: * * * Today Kentucky and allied states filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging EPA's clean car standards - performance-based protections that will reduce climate and health-harming pollution from new cars and passengers trucks in model years 2027 through 2032. "Tailp  more