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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
Judge dismisses lawsuit against TVA over coal plant closing
February 10. 2015 – by Dave Flessner in the Times Free Press A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the coal industry against the Tennessee Valley Authority that tried to block TVA’s plans to shut down two of … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, Air Toxics, Coal, fine particles, NAAQS, natural gas, Ozone, TVA
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Reactionary response to carbon rule is misguided
June 6. 2014 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor “Every means at our disposal” is the way that Indiana Governor, Mike Pence asserts he will fight regulations proposed on June 2 by the USEPA designed to turn the corner on … Continue reading
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Tagged Carbon, CO2, Coal, EPA, Indiana, knee jerk reactionary, Mike Pence
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USA finally takes some action on Climate Change
June 2, 2014 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor June 2, 2014 will certainly go down in history as a potential turning point in the way humanity deals with the whole crisis of climate change and global warming. Today, EPA finally … Continue reading
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Tagged Clean Power Plan, Climate change. global warming, Coal, EPA, Indiana, Kentucky energy, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, USEPA
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TVA’s Paradise coal plant, one of the dirtiest in the world to shutter two units-Great health news for the Tri-State
November 14, 2013-by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor Tennessee Valley Authority’s Board of Directors today, gave an early Thanksgiving and Christmas gift to Tri-State citizens’ health by announcing they would shut down two of the three units at the plant and … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal, Kentucky energy, natural gas, Paradise, TVA, Valley Watch
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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