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If you can see it, taste it or smell it…Don’t breathe it.
June 8, 2023 – By John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. Knowing that even slight elevation in fine particles can have serious impacts on human health, I cannot help but have great compassion for those people who are having to live in … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, Air Quality, bad air, Climate Change, Coal, global wamring, IQAir, Valley Watch
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ORSANCO votes to relax Pollution Control Standards for the Ohio River basin.
June 6, 2019 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor Evansville and Mt. Vernon both get drinking water from the Ohio River. In fact, more than five million US citizens acquire their drinking water from our River. We are near the … Continue reading
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Tagged Evansville, Ohio RIver, ORSANCO, Pollution control Standards Ohio River, Valley Watch
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Huntingburg option for plant’s wastewater
March 11, 2019 – by Olivia Ingle in the DuBois County Herald Officials involved with the proposal of locating Riverview Energy’s direct coal hydrogenation plant on the north side of Dale are considering options for discharge of the plant’s wastewater, … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal Refinery, Huntingburg, Indiana pollution, Riverview Energy, Valley Watch, water pollution
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TVA ignores Trump and retires Paradise (KY) coal power plant by December next year
February 14, 2019 by- John Blair, valleywatch.net editor The Tennessee Valley Authority board shunned the directions it was given earlier in the week by both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump and voted 6-1 to retire the … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal, coal closures, coal plant, Paradise, pollution, TVA, Valley Watch
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A Coal-to-Diesel Refinery Is the Last Straw for These Hoosiers
February 13, 2019 by Susan Cosier in Our Stories/Midwest Dispatch at NRDC The air in southwestern Indiana is bad enough without the emissions from yet another proposed polluter. A towering billboard in southwestern Indiana greets drivers heading west on Interstate 64: “Governor Holcomb, please—No rotten egg smell! No more … Continue reading
Clean Coal is elusive and very expensive
March 1, 2017 – by David Schlissel, IEEFA. Editor’s note: Valley Watch and our colleagues, Citizens Action Coalition and Sierra Club have challenged the Edwardsport plant since 2006 before the IURC and IDEM. Sadly, we failed to stop the plant. David Schlissel … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizens Action Coalition, clean coal, Duke Energy, IGCC, Indiana, Kemper, Ratepayers, Valley Watch
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Will Indiana taxpayers be left holding the bag for Peabody Energy’s irresponsibility?
March 16, 2016 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. It should be noted that Valley Watch has oft challenged Peabody Energy and is proud to say that we took them on and won an important eight year battle to kill their proposed … Continue reading
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Tagged bankruptcy, Bear Run, Coal, Indiana, Peabody Energy, Valley Watch
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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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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
Hooray for the first flower of 2015
February 11, 2015 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor For the last three days, I have spent some time outside the Valley Watch office looking to the ground for signs of new life. This morning was no exception. And lo … Continue reading
Cap and Dividend makes economic and logical sense
January 15, 2015 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. Editor’s note: This was written in response to an Evansville Courier and Press opinion piece by one Robert Adams that appeared in the Courier & Press on January 7, 2015. I am surprised … Continue reading
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Tagged Cap and Dividend, Cap and Trade, climate, Climate Change, global warming, Valley Watch
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Bell Telephone Science Hour discusses Photovoltaics in 1954 and a bit of local history
October 1, 2014-by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor This video definitively shows that solar electricity had its roots more than 60 years ago. A few years later, I was working in a Rexall drug store and we had a promotion of … Continue reading
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Tagged energy cost, renewable energy, Ronald Reagan, solar energy, southwest Indiana, Valley Watch
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Legislature Receives Report Detailing Success of Energizing Indiana
August 19, 2014- Press Release from Citizens Action Coalition Discontinued programs delivered over $3 in benefits for every $1 spent On August 15th, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) submitted the Demand Side Management (DSM) Report to the Indiana General … Continue reading
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Tagged CAC, DSM, Energizing Indiana, energy, energy efficiency, Indiana, Valley Watch
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