WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers (KY-05) recently presented longtime Kentucky journalist Bill Estep with a tribute in the Congressional Record to commemorate his retirement this summer from the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Congressman Rogers credited Estep with writing a key investigative journalism series called “Prescription for Pain,” exposing the deadly opioid epidemic in Eastern Kentucky that led him to launch Operation UNITE to help curb the region’s crisis and save lives. He also applauded Estep’s work in covering news related to the coal industry and the important grassroots efforts led by Shaping Our Appalachian Region (SOAR), a bipartisan initiative cofounded by Rogers, to help revitalize the economy in historic coal-producing counties.

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