Dec 25 Environment KY Waterways Alliance Critical of New Coal Ash Ponds A Kentucky environmental group tried to intervene in a case before the state’s utility regulators but was denied. By Kristin Espeland Dec 25 Environment KY Waterways Alliance Critical of New Coal Ash Ponds Kristin Espeland
Nov 3 Environment Carbon Capture Tech Makes Progress, But Enough? Today (TUESDAY), the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a mark-up session on the Senate climate change bill. Its passage is still uncertain at the moment, but one provision aims to establish widespread, commercial-scale carbon dioxide capture and storage from coal-fired power plants. The technology isn’t entirely out of the laboratory yet, but researchers and industry partners in the Ohio River Valley are working to get it there—regardless of what happens on Capitol Hill. WFPL’s Kristin Espeland Gourlay has the second of our two-part series. By Kristin Espeland Nov 3 Environment Carbon Capture Tech Makes Progress, But Enough? Kristin Espeland
Mar 12 Environment FutureGen…Again? Carbon Capture Could be Back Plans to build an experimental, near-zero carbon dioxide emissions power plant in Illinois could be back in play. The U.S. Department of Energy cancelled the FutureGen project a little more than a year ago when it determined the project’s cost had doubled. But a new report finds the DOE miscalculated. By Kristin Espeland Mar 12 Environment FutureGen…Again? Carbon Capture Could be Back Kristin Espeland
Nov 4 Local News EPA to Revise Power Plant Pollution Rules The Environmental Protection Agency may be close to finalizing a rule that would allow coal-fired power plants to forgo pollution controls if they expand their operations. By Kristin Espeland Nov 4 Local News EPA to Revise Power Plant Pollution Rules Kristin Espeland