Energy & Environment Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

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.

By 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

Apr 23

Energy & Environment

Energy Secretary Pushes Regional Job Potential From Climate Action

On Thursday — Earth Day — President Joe Biden announced an ambitious goal to fight the climate crisis: The country will cut by half its global warming emissions by 2030. Such action will require a massive reduction in the use of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, long a bedrock of the economy […]

By Jeff Young

Apr 23

Energy & Environment

Energy Secretary Pushes Regional Job Potential From Climate Action

Jeff Young

Apr 20

Energy & Environment

Mine Workers’ Leader Wants To Save Last Coal Jobs As Biden Tackles Climate

United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts said he’s been hearing the term “just transition” tossed around for more than 20 years as part of the long-running, nearly Sisyphean discussion about climate change, clean energy, and coal country. Simply put: he’s not a fan. “I ask anybody who has been uttering those two words […]

By Jeff Young

Apr 20

Energy & Environment

Mine Workers’ Leader Wants To Save Last Coal Jobs As Biden Tackles Climate

Jeff Young

Apr 16

Energy & Environment

Sen. Manchin, UMWA’s Roberts Talk Energy Transition

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin will take part in a discussion on Monday about the future of energy and coalfield communities. Manchin will participate in a one-hour event hosted by the National Press Club called “A Conversation on Energy Transition and Working Families.” Manchin, a former West Virginia governor, has a prominent role in Washington […]

By Curtis Tate

Apr 16

Energy & Environment

Sen. Manchin, UMWA’s Roberts Talk Energy Transition

Curtis Tate