May 1 Environment Did Louisville Ratepayers Help Fund Anti-Solar Lobbying? With a new rate hike taking effect Wednesday, LGE/KU customers will help pick up the tab for membership dues at trade groups that lobby against environmental protections. By Ryan Van Velzer May 1 Environment Did Louisville Ratepayers Help Fund Anti-Solar Lobbying? Ryan Van Velzer
Apr 30 Environment Rates For LG&E/KU Customers Are Going Up This Week Electric and gas rates for about 1.3 million Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities customers will increase on Wednesday. By Ryan Van Velzer Apr 30 Environment Rates For LGE/KU Customers Are Going Up This Week Ryan Van Velzer
Apr 29 Environment U of L Cuts Climate Action Plan Budget, But Is Still Kentucky’s Most Sustainable School Even Kentucky's most sustainable university is falling short of its goals to reduce emissions to address climate change. By Ryan Van Velzer Apr 29 Environment U of L Cuts Climate Plan, But Is Still Ky.'s Most Sustainable School Ryan Van Velzer
Apr 26 Environment Louisville Hazardous Waste Site Still Leaking Pollution Into Ohio River More than 20 years after the government declared Lees Lane was no longer a top priority, the landfill is still contaminating groundwater. By Ryan Van Velzer Apr 26 Environment Louisville Hazardous Waste Site Still Leaking Pollution Into Ohio River Ryan Van Velzer
Apr 22 Environment For Earth Day, Nature Conservancy Preserves 100,000 Acres Of Appalachian Forest And Streams The property, which is on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, is intended to preserve a wildlife corridor in the Appalachian Mountains. By Sydney Boles, Ohio Valley ReSource Apr 22 Environment Nature Conservancy Preserves 100,000 Acres Of Appalachian Forest Sydney Boles, Ohio Valley ReSource
Apr 22 Environment Unequal: Read WFPL’s Whole Series On Louisville’s Toxic Air Pollution Louisville's toxic air pollution has a disproportionate impact on people of color and lower-income communities. By Ryan Van Velzer Apr 22 Environment Unequal: Read WFPL's Whole Series On Louisville's Toxic Air Pollution Ryan Van Velzer
Apr 19 Environment Unequal: What More Can Louisville Do To Improve Toxic Air Pollution? There are lots of people working to improve the city’s air quality: students, scientists, local officials and activists. By Ryan Van Velzer Apr 19 Environment Unequal: What More Can Louisville Do To Improve Toxic Air Pollution? Ryan Van Velzer
Apr 18 Environment Unequal: Who Are Louisville’s Top Polluters? From 2008-2017, the risks posed by toxic air pollution in Louisville were higher than U.S. median risks 69 percent of the time. By Ryan Van Velzer Apr 18 Environment Unequal: Who Are Louisville's Top Polluters? Ryan Van Velzer
Apr 17 Environment Unequal: How West Louisville Residents Cleaned Up The Air A lot of the progress that's been made to reduce Louisville's toxic air pollution is due to community action in the West End. By Ryan Van Velzer Apr 17 Environment Unequal: How West Louisville Residents Cleaned Up The Air Ryan Van Velzer
Apr 16 Environment Unequal: Cancer Risk From Pollution Is Higher In West, South Louisville Neighborhoods The combined emissions of industrial facilities near California Park contribute to the highest cancer risk in Jefferson County. By Ryan Van Velzer Apr 16 Environment Unequal: Pollution Cancer Risk Is Higher In West, South Louisville Ryan Van Velzer
Apr 15 Environment Unequal: Despite Progress, Louisville’s Toxic Air Still Mostly Affects Poor, Black Residents Today, more than 80 percent of all the toxic air pollution released in Jefferson County is released in west and south Louisville. By Ryan Van Velzer and Alexandra Kanik Apr 15 Environment Unequal: Toxic Air Still Mostly Affects Poor, Black Louisvillians Ryan Van Velzer and Alexandra Kanik
Apr 13 Environment New TVA Head Says Board Right On Coal Plant Closures President Donald Trump and the U.S. Senate majority leader who hails from Kentucky had previously criticized the move. By Jonathan Mattise, Associated Press and Travis Loller, Associated Press Apr 13 Environment New TVA Head Says Board Right On Coal Plant Closures Jonathan Mattise, Associated Press and Travis Loller, Associated Press
Apr 10 Environment Coal Community Residents Ask Congress For Health Study Of Mountaintop Removal Appalachian residents told lawmakers Tuesday that mountaintop removal should be halted until its health effects are better studied. By Jeff Young Apr 10 Environment Coal Community Residents Ask Congress For Mining Health Study Jeff Young
Apr 8 Environment Mine Safety Debt For WV Gov. Justice’s Family Companies Grows to $4M That $4.3 million is far more than the companies owed when Justice ran for governor in 2016, when he pledged to make good on such debts. By Alexandra Kanik and Brittany Patterson, Ohio Valley ReSource Apr 8 Environment Mine Safety Debt For WV Gov. Justice’s Family Companies Grows to $4M Alexandra Kanik and Brittany Patterson, Ohio Valley ReSource