Jun 30 Economy Kentucky AG Cameron On West Virginia Coal Plant: Close It Environmental and consumer groups have pushed for the early closure of a 50-year-old coal-fired power plant in West Virginia that serves electricity customers in both West Virginia and Kentucky. They have an unlikely ally: Kentucky’s Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron. In a filing last week with the Kentucky Public Service Commission, Cameron recommended the commission […] By Curtis Tate Jun 30 Economy Kentucky AG Cameron On West Virginia Coal Plant: Close It Curtis Tate
Jun 10 Economy 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 Economy These Coal Plants Need Upgrades. Three States Will Decide Their Fate. Curtis Tate
Jun 3 Economy Powering Down: Ohio Community Reckons With Coal Plant Closure In just a little more than a decade more than 500 coal generators have closed as companies switch to cheaper natural gas and renewable energy. By Brittany Patterson, Ohio Valley ReSource Jun 3 Economy Powering Down: Ohio Community Reckons With Coal Plant Closure Brittany Patterson, Ohio Valley ReSource
Jun 20 Environment NYT Editorial Criticizes Power Company for Opposition to Clean Air Rules The New York Times’ editorial yesterday took power giant American Electric Power to task for its opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed air standards. AEP has been contradicting itself lately, telling the public that the eventual closing of two dozen power plants will result in major job losses, even while the company tells investors […] By Erica Peterson Jun 20 Environment NYT Editorial Criticizes Power Company for Opposition to Clean Air Rules Erica Peterson
Dec 4 Environment WV Plant Win $334M to Ramp Up CO2 Capture The world’s first commercial carbon capture operation at a power plant in West Virginia has received the federal funding it needs to scale up. By Kristin Espeland Dec 4 Environment WV Plant Win $334M to Ramp Up CO2 Capture Kristin Espeland
Nov 2 Environment World's First Carbon Capture & Storage, On the Ohio The U.S. Senate has begun hearings on its version of a climate change bill, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. If passed, it could require a 65 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions—namely carbon dioxide--from the nation’s existing coal-fired power plants by the year 2020. Some high profile lobbying groups are fighting the bill, but some of the biggest emitters aren’t. In the first of this two-part series on carbon capture and storage, we visit an Ohio River Valley power plant that's flipped the switch on a world first. By Kristin Espeland Nov 2 Environment World's First Carbon Capture & Storage, On the Ohio Kristin Espeland