Erica Peterson
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If the dam failed at the Ghent Power Station’s coal ash pond, it would only take 20 minutes for the toxic coal ash slurry to reach a residential…
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A board that was ostensibly responsible for reviewing coal miners’ training and reviewing all proposed coal mine safety regulations will hold its last…
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The University of Louisville’s Conn Center for Renewable Energy is planting more hemp this year at the school’s Belknap Campus.This is officially the…
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Capturing carbon dioxide from power plants is, at least theoretically, a good way to reduce one of the top gases that contributes to climate change.But in…
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After years of coal industry decline, Kentucky has fallen from the nation’s third largest coal producer to the fifth. Federal data released last month…
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A Kentucky social justice organization has completed an ambitious plan for the state’s energy future.Kentuckians for the Commonwealth released its Empower…
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A researcher at the University of Louisville wants to know whether coal ash is in homes in Southwest Louisville and how it’s potentially affecting the…
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Louisville Gas and Electric has reached a settlement with intervenors in the company’s rate case that’s pending before state regulators.LG&E had initially…
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In the first project of its kind, a Kentucky coal company is partnering with a global renewable energy giant to explore putting a major solar installation…
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The plume of polluted water was black. In the satellite images, it snaked from the coal ash landfill at the D.B. Wilson Power Plant in Western Kentucky,…