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Community Groups File Lawsuit for Federal Coal Ash Protections
April 5, 2012-by Jared Saylor, Earthjustice Environmental and public health groups will file a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to complete its rulemaking process and finalize public health safeguards against … Continue reading
LG&E to convert Cane Run power plant to burn cleaner natural gas
September 15, 2011-by James Bruggers in the Louisville Courier Journal Louisville Gas & Electric Co. intends to replace its 57-year-old coal-fired Cane Run Station in Louisville with a new plant next door powered with cleaner-burning natural gas by 2016. The 640-megawatt natural gas … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal, coal plant retirement, Eon, Kentucky, LG&E, Louisville, pollution
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Report Projects Health Impacts and Costs from Worsening Ozone. Ozone Pollution Could Cost Americans More Than $5 Billion in 2020
July 7. 2011-by the Union of Concerned Scientists Unchecked global warming could threaten public health and increase health costs by exacerbating ground-level ozone, according to a peer-reviewed report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The report, “Climate … Continue reading
John Blair testifies at USEPA’s Air Toxics hearing in Chicago regarding toxic pollution in the tri-state
May 24, 2011-by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. Twenty-one years after the US Congress ordered EPA to develop rules to control the release of toxic chemicals from coal and oil fired power plants, EPA proposed a rule to do so in … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Toxics, Chicago, Coal, John Blair, pollution, Valley Watch
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SW Indiana has two of nation’s to ten Carbon Dioxide emitting plants- Gibson #5, Rockport #10
February 20, 2011-By John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. A new report, released late last week shows that US power plants increased their emissions of climate change causing, carbon dioxide by 5.56 percent in 2010 over that released in 2009. The Environmental … Continue reading
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Tagged AEP Rockport, CO2, Coal, Duke Energy, Gibson, pollution, Valley Watch
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