Environment – 89.3 WFPL News Louisville

Jun 11

Environment

Shawnee Park Gets Another Improvement As City Continues to Invest

City officials and Shawnee neighborhood residents unveiled a series of improvements in Shawnee Park on Friday. The new amenities include chess tables and floating islands in the park’s pond. The park is one of Louisville’s three flagship parks designed by the country’s most famous landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. The Metropolitan Sewer Department invested $2.3 […]

By Ryan Van Velzer

Jun 11

Environment

Shawnee Park Gets Another Improvement As City Continues to Invest

By Ryan Van Velzer

Jun 10

Environment

These Coal Plants Need Upgrades. Three States Will Decide Their Fate.

They’ve towered over the region’s communities for decades. They generated the electricity for homes around the Ohio Valley. They burned coal, a fossil fuel Appalachia has in abundance. But three West Virginia coal-fired power plants owned by Ohio-based American Electric Power may be on borrowed time. The Mitchell Plant in Moundsville, the Mountaineer Plant in […]

By Curtis Tate

Jun 10

Environment

These Coal Plants Need Upgrades. Three States Will Decide Their Fate.

Curtis Tate

Jun 4

Environment

AG Daniel Cameron Asks Supreme Court To Curtail EPA’s Power

Ky. AG Cameron is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a lower court ruling that allows a federal agency to set emission standards.

By Ryan Van Velzer

Jun 4

Environment

AG Daniel Cameron Asks Supreme Court To Curtail EPA’s Power

Ryan Van Velzer

May 31

Environment

Appalachian Coal Is A Major Source Of Methane, A Potent Greenhouse Gas

Appalachian coal emits more than a million tons of methane a year, and the region is the largest U.S. source of the potent greenhouse gas.

By Curtis Tate

May 31

Environment

Appalachian Coal Is A Major Source Of Methane, A Potent Greenhouse Gas

Curtis Tate

May 31

Environment

The ‘Beef’ With Beef: Cattle, Climate Change, And Alternative Meat

Many people might think of Blake Munger as a cattle farmer as he walks through his pasture land in western Kentucky, but he sees things a little differently nowadays. “I don’t know which is more valuable, my cattle or the pasture at this point. I used to say cattle, but this plays a bigger role […]

By Liam Niemeyer, Ohio Valley ReSource

May 31

Environment

The ‘Beef’ With Beef: Cattle, Climate Change, And Alternative Meat

Liam Niemeyer, Ohio Valley ReSource

May 18

Environment

Ky. Utility Regulators Set Rooftop Solar Rate

The new rate is a lot higher than utilities want to pay net-metering customers.

By Ryan Van Velzer

May 18

Environment

Ky. Utility Regulators Set Rooftop Solar Rate

Ryan Van Velzer

May 17

Environment

With Infrastructure Funding On Horizon, Beleaguered Martin County Looks To Raise Water Rates Again

Martin County Ky., residents facing another rate hike hope Biden's infrastructure plan will help with their failing rural water system.

By Katie Myers

May 17

Environment

With Infrastructure Funding On Horizon, Beleaguered Martin County Looks To Raise Water Rates Again

Katie Myers

May 12

Environment

LG&E Agrees To Reduce Emissions To Limit Ozone Formation

The utility reached an agreement with air pollution regulators to reduce emissions that contribute to harmful ground level ozone.

By Ryan Van Velzer

May 12

Environment

LG&E Agrees To Reduce Emissions To Limit Ozone

Ryan Van Velzer

May 10

Environment

Marathon Refinery Near Ashland Exceeds EPA Levels For Cancer-Causing Pollutant

Fence line readings for benzene jumped 233% between 2019 and 2020 at the refinery and were 11% above action levels designated by the EPA.

By Ryan Van Velzer

May 10

Environment

Kentucky Refinery Exceeds EPA Level For Cancer-Causing Pollutant

Ryan Van Velzer

May 3

Environment

Power Switch: Solar Is Heating Up In The Ohio Valley

As area policy makers take varied approaches to solar, advocates argue that a decentralized grid could make electricity more democratic.

By Katie Myers and Curtis Tate

May 3

Environment

Power Switch: Solar Is Heating Up In The Ohio Valley

Katie Myers and Curtis Tate

Apr 28

Environment

LG&E’s Parent Company Paid No Federal Taxes Last Year

In a year when Kentuckians struggled to pay their utilities bills because of a global pandemic, Louisville Gas and Electric’s parent company paid nothing in federal taxes.

By Ryan Van Velzer

Apr 28

Environment

LG&E’s Parent Company Paid No Federal Taxes Last Year

Ryan Van Velzer

Apr 26

Environment

Power Player: How Manchin Is Key to Biden’s Energy, Climate Goals

On Earth Day, President Joe Biden convened world leaders for a climate summit, where he laid out an ambitious goal for U.S. policy on climate change. “The United States sets out to cut our global warming emissions in half by the end of the decade,” Biden said. “That’s where we’re heading as a nation.” But […]

By Curtis Tate

Apr 26

Environment

Power Player: How Manchin Is Key to Biden’s Energy, Climate Goals

Curtis Tate

Apr 23

Environment

Energy Secretary Pushes Regional Job Potential From Climate Action

On Thursday — Earth Day — President Joe Biden announced an ambitious goal to fight the climate crisis: The country will cut by half its global warming emissions by 2030. Such action will require a massive reduction in the use of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, long a bedrock of the economy […]

By Jeff Young

Apr 23

Environment

Energy Secretary Pushes Regional Job Potential From Climate Action

Jeff Young

Apr 22

Environment

Louisville’s Latest Climate Commitments Need LG&E Buy-In

Mayor Fischer’s announcement comes on the heels of President Joe Biden’s renewed commitment to combating climate change.

By Ryan Van Velzer

Apr 22

Environment

Louisville’s Latest Climate Commitments Need LG&E Buy-In

Ryan Van Velzer

Apr 22

Environment

Biden Makes New Pledge For U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A 50% Cut

The president began a climate summit by announcing the U.S. will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade.

By Scott Detrow, NPR

Apr 22

Environment

Biden Makes New Pledge For U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Scott Detrow, NPR