Energy & Environment Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

Jul 16

Energy & Environment

Kentucky Regulators: West Virginia Coal Plant Should Close in 2028

Kentucky utility regulators reached a decision this week that could mean a northern West Virginia power plant will have to close years sooner than planned. The Kentucky Public Service Commission on Thursday rejected Kentucky Power’s request to perform environmental compliance work on the Mitchell Plant near Moundsville, West Virginia. Under federal rules, the coal-burning plant […]

By Curtis Tate

Jul 16

Energy & Environment

Kentucky Regulators: West Virginia Coal Plant Should Close in 2028

By Curtis Tate

Jun 30

Energy & Environment

Kentucky’s AG Cameron on West Virginia Coal Plant: Close It

Environmental and consumer groups have pushed for the early closure of a 50-year-old coal-fired power plant in West Virginia that serves electricity customers in both West Virginia and Kentucky. They have an unlikely ally: Kentucky’s Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron. In a filing last week with the Kentucky Public Service Commission, Cameron recommended the commission […]

By Curtis Tate

Jun 30

Energy & Environment

Kentucky’s AG Cameron on West Virginia Coal Plant: Close It

Curtis Tate

Jun 22

Energy & Environment

Raised In A Coal Mining Family, Now Working On Biden’s Cleaner Energy Future

Earlier this month, Brian Anderson welcomed some special guests to the Department of Energy research laboratory he leads in Morgantown, West Virginia. The state’s pivotal Democratic Senator, Joe Manchin, was visiting along with the country’s new Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm. The two saw demonstrations of the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s work, much of which […]

By Jeff Young

Jun 22

Energy & Environment

Raised In A Coal Mining Family, Now Working On Biden’s Cleaner Energy Future

Jeff Young

Jun 9

Energy & Environment

West Virginia Coal Plants Need Upgrades. Three States Will Decide Their Fate.

They’ve towered over the region’s communities for decades. They generated the electricity for homes around the Ohio Valley. They burned coal, a fossil fuel Appalachia has in abundance. But three West Virginia coal-fired power plants owned by Ohio-based American Electric Power may be on borrowed time. The Mitchell Plant in Moundsville, the Mountaineer Plant in […]

By Curtis Tate

Jun 9

Energy & Environment

West Virginia Coal Plants Need Upgrades. Three States Will Decide Their Fate.

Curtis Tate

May 28

Energy & Environment

The ‘Beef’ With Beef: Cattle, Climate Change, And Alternative Meat

Many people might think of Blake Munger as a cattle farmer as he walks through his pasture land in western Kentucky, but he sees things a little differently nowadays. “I don’t know which is more valuable, my cattle or the pasture at this point. I used to say cattle, but this plays a bigger role […]

By Liam Niemeyer

May 28

Energy & Environment

The ‘Beef’ With Beef: Cattle, Climate Change, And Alternative Meat

Liam Niemeyer

May 28

Energy & Environment

Appalachian Coal Is A Major Source Of Methane, A Potent Greenhouse Gas

Appalachian coal mines emit more than a million tons of methane a year, and overall the region is the largest U.S. source of the potent greenhouse gas, according to new research. The region was the source of 3 million tons of methane in 2019, 1.1 million tons of it from coal mining, according to European […]

By Curtis Tate

May 28

Energy & Environment

Appalachian Coal Is A Major Source Of Methane, A Potent Greenhouse Gas

Curtis Tate

May 24

Energy & Environment

Beshear Announces Water, Flood Control Funding For Eastern Kentucky

Eastern Kentucky’s water problems are well documented, but for Pike County, some help may be on the way. The county’s two Appalachian Regional Commission applications for water system improvements and flood prevention infrastructure have officially been recommended for federal funding by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who announced his support for the projects during a tour […]

By Katie Myers

May 24

Energy & Environment

Beshear Announces Water, Flood Control Funding For Eastern Kentucky

Katie Myers

May 18

Energy & Environment

Kentucky Coal Production, Employment Decline Slows in 1st Quarter

Kentucky coal production and employment fell by the smallest amount in nearly two years, according to new data. The state’s coal mines produced 6.5 million tons in the first three months of 2021, according to the Energy and Environment Cabinet, a decline of 9.6% from 2020. Total employment fell by 14.6% to 3,983 workers. Western […]

By Curtis Tate

May 18

Energy & Environment

Kentucky Coal Production, Employment Decline Slows in 1st Quarter

Curtis Tate

Apr 30

Energy & Environment

Power Switch: Solar Is Heating Up In The Ohio Valley

St. Vincent’s Mission has been doing the work of feeding, clothing and sheltering the people of Floyd County, Kentucky, since 1968. “We believe that all persons have a God-ordained right to the basic needs of life in order to meet their full potential,” the mission states on its website. Recently, the mission looked for a […]

By Katie Myers and Curtis Tate

Apr 30

Energy & Environment

Power Switch: Solar Is Heating Up In The Ohio Valley

Katie Myers and Curtis Tate

Apr 23

Energy & Environment

Power Player: How Manchin Is Key to Biden’s Energy, Climate Goals

On Earth Day, President Joe Biden convened world leaders for a climate summit, where he laid out an ambitious goal for U.S. policy on climate change. “The United States sets out to cut our global warming emissions in half by the end of the decade,” Biden said. “That’s where we’re heading as a nation.” But […]

By Curtis Tate

Apr 23

Energy & Environment

Power Player: How Manchin Is Key to Biden’s Energy, Climate Goals

Curtis Tate