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Kentucky Denies Permit for Coal Ash Landfill At Trimble County Power Plant
March 21, 2013-by Erica Petersen, WFPL News 89.3 FM The Kentucky Division of Waste Management has denied a pending permit for a coal ash landfill in Trimble County. The proposed landfill would have been 218 acres, near Louisville Gas and Electric’s Trimble … Continue reading
The Price of Carbon
March 20, 2013-via Climate Reality and Reggie Watts Carbon pollution is not only disrupting our lives, it’s hitting our wallets. Comedian and musician Reggie Watts shows how, laying out the billion-dollar connection between fossil-fuel energy and dirty weather events like … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Climate Reality, Coal, global warming, oil, pollution, Reggie Watts
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Studies examine potential links between coal and cancer in Eastern Kentucky
March 19, 2013-by James Bruggers in Watchdog Earth What do toenails have to with human health and the environment? Like hair, they can contain contaminants that are bodies are shedding. I once had my hair sampled for mercury and, to … Continue reading
Peabody Energy Gets Subpoena From SEC Relating to Prairie State
February 27, 2013-By Sonja Elmquist, Bloomberg Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU), the largest U.S. coal producer, said the Securities and Exchange Commission served it with a subpoena seeking information and documents relating to the development of the Prairie State power station. … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal, electricity pricing, Illinois, municipal utilities, Prairie State, Valley Watch
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A sweltering planet’s agenda-A Washington Post Editorial
January 15, 2013-A Washington Post Editorial. Editor’s note: Valley Watch has long called for a carbon tax that would be refunded to people on an equal basis so that poor people who use little energy could actually benefit from it. We … Continue reading
Citizen action wins one in Indiana. Jasper officials prevented sufficient public involvement
November 20, 2012-by Dave Stafford in the Indiana Lawyer A judge who ruled against opponents of the conversion of a former coal-fired energy plant in Jasper abused her discretion on a series of matters, the Indiana Court of Appeals held … Continue reading
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Tagged biomass, citizen action, Coal, IN, Japser, msicanthus grass, perseverance wins
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Climate Likely to Be on Hotter Side of Projections
November 9, 2012-Press Release from NASA A new NASA-funded study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo., finds climate model projections that show a greater rise in global temperature are likely to prove more accurate than those showing … Continue reading
Most energy subsidies go to fossil and nukes, not clean energy as the corporatists would have you believe
November 7, 2012-by Daniel B. Botkin in E-The Environmental Magazine A persistent and common criticism of solar and wind energy is that they don’t pay their own way, but require government subsidies. Discounting one-time allocations under the now infamous bailout … Continue reading
Grist Magazine’s David Roberts explains climate change in a TED presentation
This video is to promote general awareness of the science of climate change. It features David Roberts of Grist, and short clips from around the web. Edited by @ryanlcooper. Find more of my stuff at http://www.ryanlouiscooper.com. Find David at http://grist.org/author/david-roberts/ … Continue reading
What Is The Future Of King Coal In China?
October 16, 2012-by Ailun Yang in WRIInsights When it comes to coal consumption, no other nation comes close to China. The country reigns as the world’s largest coal user, burning almost half of the global total each year. About 70 percent … Continue reading
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Tagged china, Climate Change, Coal, energy, low carbon development, WRI
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Even on a “clear” day pollution abounds in Rockport, Indiana
October 14, 2012-by John Blair, valley watch.net editor. AEP’s Rockport power plant not only dominates the skyline in SW Indiana, it also makes clouds. A close inspection of this photo taken © October 12, 2012 by John Blair shows several impacts … Continue reading
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Tagged AEP, Coal, coal pollution, Indiana, Ohio RIver, Rockport pollution
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If the Tri-State were a State, we would be 3rd in the release of toxic chemicals to the air, nationwide.
August 14, 2012 – Press Release of Valley Watch, Inc. Last week, headlines in this region showed that Kentucky placed first and Indiana fourth in the release of toxic chemicals to our air from coal plants, according to a study … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, Coal, coal plants, eGRID, Indiana, Kentucky, NRDC, pollution, toxic air pollution, TRI, Valley Watch, Western Kentucky
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What on Earth is the deal with Indiana Gasification? Or how do “conservatives” justify such leftist, authoritarian business models.
June 13, 2012 – By John Blair, valley watch.net editor It is doubtful that schemes to refine synthetic gas and liquids from coal will ever be economic, Indeed, only two countries have used such technology because they were desperate for … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal, Indiana Gasification, Leucadia, Mark Lubbers, Mitch Daniels, natural gas, Rockport, TRI, William Rosenberg
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Is Indiana taking proper action against toxins in our waterways?
June 3, 2012-By Ryan Sabalow in Star Watch in the Indianapolis Star About a mile south of Lucas Oil Stadium in Downtown Indianapolis, Tony Chao stood fishing one recent morning on the bank of the White River. A few feet … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal, fish consumption advisories, IDEM, Indiana, Indianapolis Star, mercury, toxic pollution, water pollution
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