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EPA Finalizes new Clean Water Rule
May 27, 2015 – by the Office of Environmental Justice, USEPA In an historic step for the protection of clean water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army finalized the Clean Water Rule today to clearly protect from … Continue reading
Dennis Gage questions legislature’s “war on Rooftop Solar”
May 16, 2015 – by Dennis Gage in the Fauxton Report The forces of darkness (aka investor-owned Utilities) have been plotting a coordinated nation-wide assault on rooftop solar since 2012. Battles have already been waged in a number of state … Continue reading
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Tremendous victory for CAC and the State
May 8, 2015 – Press Release from Citizens Action Coalition For immediate release – May 8, 2015 Contact: Kerwin Olson kolson@citact.org Jennifer Washburn jwashburn@citact.org INDIANAPOLIS – Today the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission denied Duke Energy Indiana’s request for nearly $1.9B from captive … Continue reading
Indiana and Kentucky near the bottom of “Eco Friendly States”
May 6, 2015 – by John S. Kieran on WalletHub.com Eco-friendliness and personal finance are essentially cousins. Not only are our environmental and financial necessities aligned – providing ourselves with sustainable clean drinking water and nutritious sustenance, for example – … Continue reading
Edwardsport “performance” substantially misses Duke’s promises
April 13, 2015 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor “Fiasco” is really the only way to describe the whole situation with Duke Energy’s ill fated coal gasification plant at Edwardsport, IN. First the plant was promised to cost $1.2 billion … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal gasification, Cost overruns, Duke Energy, Edwardsport, fiasco, IGCC, Valley Watch
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Cronkite reported on climate change in 1980
April 5, 2015 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor Thirty-five years ago, the “most trusted man in America,” Walter Cronkite ran a story on his nightly newscast regarding global warming and climate change. Since then hundreds pf scientific studies have … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Coal, global warming, Wlater Cronkite
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Hermann, Mo., Mayor: ‘Nobody With an IQ Above Their Shoe Size’ Believes Prairie State Is Viable
April 1, 2015 – by IEEFA.org. Editor’s note: Valley Watch spent the greater part of two years in the middle of the last decade trying to inform various municipal electric utilities throughout the midwest that they would end up in trouble if they … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal, IMPA, Municipal electric utilities, new coal, Peabody Energy, Prairie State
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GMO Weed Killer’s Cancer Risk
March 20. 2015, – by Mary Ellen Kustin, Senior Policy Analyst, Environmental Working Group Glyphosate – the active herbicide in the widely used Monsanto’s Roundup and Dow Agrosciences Enlist Duo weedkillers – is “probably carcinogenic to humans,” a working group of … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, carcinogens, glyphosphate, pesticides, roundup
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UPDATE: SECOND DAY of “Unhealthy” air but no alerts. A situation far too common in Evansville and we deserve better.
March 12, 2015 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor For the second day in a row, air quality in Evansville deteriorated to “unhealthy” levels and still no alerts. What goes here? Actually the level got all the way to 45.3µg/m3 at … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, Evansville, Evansville EPA, fine particles, IDEM, Indiana
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Blair on WEHT “In Depth” interview with Brad Byrd discussing Indiana Gasification
March 10, 2015 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor Last night after the news was disclosed that Indiana Gasification had dropped their plans for a coal gasification plant in Rockport, I was asked by WEHT to come in to discuss … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal, Coal gasification, Indiana Gasification, Indiana pollution, Marble Hill, Valley Watch
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Valley Watch, partners chalk up major victory with Indiana Gasification permit being revoked
March 9, 2015 = by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor First, I must say Hooray!!! Perseverance of real people fighting for their health and communities win a big one, beating back a ridiculous project that reeked of crony capitalism and corruption in … Continue reading
That gallon of gas is actually costing you $6.25
March 6, 2015 – by Lindsay Abrams in Salon (Credit: nattanan/Shutterstock) Paying $2.45 for a gallon of gas is a lot more of a bargain than it sounds. If you took into account the health and environmental costs of burning fuel, finds a … Continue reading
Score two victories for energy/environmental advocates in Indiana
February 26, 2015 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. In a rather surprising moment in the annals of Indiana legislative politics, Hoosier safe energy and environmental advocates had two big victories at the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday 2/25/15. First it was … Continue reading
Indiana, Kentucky near the bottom of Gallup “Well-Being” Index
February 19, 2015 – by Dan Witters in Gallop.com Alaska residents had the highest well-being in the nation in 2014, reaching the top spot for the first time since Gallup and Healthways began tracking well-being in 2008. West Virginia and … Continue reading
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Tagged community, health, Indiana, Kentucky, safety, well-being
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NASA reveals new video of the Sun – Breathtaking
February 11, 2015 – by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly detailed images of the whole sun 24 hours a day. Capturing an image more than … Continue reading