May 3 Environment Public Service Commission: LG&E Can Convert Cane Run Power Plant to Natural Gas Louisville Gas and Electric has secured state approval to build natural gas turbines at its Cane Run Power Station. The Kentucky Public Service Commission issued its ruling today. By Erica Peterson May 3 Environment Public Service Commission: LG&E Can Convert Cane Run Power Plant to Natural Gas Erica Peterson
May 3 Environment PSC Approves LG&E Proposal for Gas Plant at Cane Run The PSC has approved Louisville Gas and Electric’s application to construct a 640 megawatt natural gas power plant at the current site of the gas-fired Cane Run Power Station. The company will also buy existing gas generation in Oldham County. By Erica Peterson May 3 Environment PSC Approves LG&E Proposal for Gas Plant at Cane Run Erica Peterson
May 1 Environment Regulators Seek Comments on Kentucky Water Pollution Plan Update The Kentucky Division of Water is seeking public comments on its updated plan to deal with water pollution..Under the Clean Water Act, the Division of Water is required to present a plan every year to address what’s known as “non-point source pollution.” That’s pollution that doesn’t come out of a pipe, and includes everything on the ground that eventually washes into waterways. By Erica Peterson May 1 Environment Regulators Seek Comments on Kentucky Water Pollution Plan Update Erica Peterson
Apr 30 Environment Kentucky Power Makes Case for Continued Coal Use at E. Ky. Power Plant The Kentucky Public Service Commission is set to decide soon whether American Electric Power can keep burning coal at an eastern Kentucky power plant. The Public Service Commissioners heard testimony today in Frankfort. By Erica Peterson Apr 30 Environment Kentucky Power Makes Case for Continued Coal Use at E. Ky. Power Plant Erica Peterson
Apr 30 Environment Neighbors Say New Dust Screen at Cane Run Isn’t Working Neighborhood residents say a dust screen that was installed last week at Louisville Gas and Electric’s Cane Run Power Station isn’t working.A video taken this weekend by neighborhood residents shows clouds of dust billowing over and around the 50-foot-tall screen the company installed near its sludge processing plant.Greg Walker lives across the street from the plant, and shot the video. By Erica Peterson Apr 30 Environment Neighbors Say New Dust Screen at Cane Run Isn’t Working Erica Peterson
Apr 27 Environment Rally for Safer Chemical Legislation Planned for Tomorrow Residents and community activists are planning an event tomorrow in west Louisville to raise awareness about toxic chemicals.It’s not an accident that the rally is planned on the edge of Rubbertown—where many of the city’s chemical plants are located. Jason Howard of the Kentucky Environmental Foundation says the point of the rally is to support an overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. By Erica Peterson Apr 27 Environment Rally for Safer Chemical Legislation Planned for Tomorrow Erica Peterson
Apr 26 Environment Ky. Court Allows Groups to Intervene in Pollution Settlement The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled environmental groups and citizens may intervene in a lawsuit against a coal mining company. By Erica Peterson Apr 26 Environment Ky. Court Allows Groups to Intervene in Pollution Settlement Erica Peterson
Apr 26 Environment Water Quality Report: Ten Percent of Taps Tested Show Elevated Lead Levels The Louisville area’s tap water meets all federal standards, according to the annual water quality report released today by Louisville Water Company. But ten percent of the homes tested showed elevated levels of lead. By Erica Peterson Apr 26 Environment Water Quality Report: Ten Percent of Taps Tested Show Elevated Lead Levels Erica Peterson
Apr 25 Environment NYT’s Mark Bittman on Wendell Berry, Land and Food New York Times columnist Mark Bittman came to Kentucky last month for what he describes as a sort of reporting trip/pilgrimage to poet-farmer Wendell Berry's Port Royal home. Berry has been in the national news this week after delivering the 41st Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities Monday in Washington, D.C. By Erica Peterson Apr 25 Environment NYT’s Mark Bittman on Wendell Berry, Land and Food Erica Peterson
Apr 25 Environment Utility Task Force Will Hold Public Meeting Tonight A task force commissioned to study a potential collaboration between Metropolitan Sewer District, the Louisville Water Company and Metro Public Works is holding a public meeting tonight.The task force was appointed by Mayor Greg Fischer to look for potential efficiencies or cost-saving between MSD, Louisville Water and Public Works. It began work in January. By Erica Peterson Apr 25 Environment Utility Task Force Will Hold Public Meeting Tonight Erica Peterson
Apr 25 Environment LG&E Plans Dust Screen at Cane Run; Residents Skeptical As complaints over coal ash near the Cane Run power plant continue, Louisville Gas and Electric has begun construction of a 50-foot tall dust screen which the company hopes will resolve neighborhood concerns about dust emissions. By Erica Peterson Apr 25 Environment LG&E Plans Dust Screen at Cane Run; Residents Skeptical Erica Peterson
Apr 25 Environment Annual Air Quality Report Shows Louisville’s Progress, But Pollution is Still a Problem An annual report says Louisville’s air is better than it’s been in recent years. But the metro area’s air quality still ranks among the worst in the nation in two categories. By Erica Peterson Apr 25 Environment Annual Air Quality Report Shows Louisville’s Progress, But Pollution is Still a Problem Erica Peterson
Apr 24 Environment Wendell Berry Stresses Relationship With the Land in National Lecture Kentucky poet and farmer Wendell Berry used a national address this week to remind Americans of their connection to the land. As the country’s 41st Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, he spoke to an audience in D.C. about corporate greed and called on Americans to return to the land. By Erica Peterson Apr 24 Environment Wendell Berry Stresses Relationship With the Land in National Lecture Erica Peterson
Apr 23 Environment New Law Opens Loopholes for Nuclear Energy in Kentucky On paper, Kentucky has a ban on nuclear power plants. That’s still the case. But a new law opens up new ways for nuclear energy to be used in the Commonwealth.One of the things House Bill 559 allows is the re-enrichment of depleted uranium tails. But the legislation doesn’t go very far to help the one facility in the state that has been waiting for federal approval to re-enrich uranium tools. By Erica Peterson Apr 23 Environment New Law Opens Loopholes for Nuclear Energy in Kentucky Erica Peterson