Erica Peterson
Erica reports on environment and energy issues for WFPL, which run the gamut from stories about the region’s biodiversity to coal mine safety and pollution issues. In the name of journalism, she’s gone spelunking, tagged mussels and taste-tested bourbon. Erica moved to Louisville in June 2011 from Charleston, West Virginia, where she worked for the state’s public radio and television affiliate. Besides Kentucky and West Virginia, she’s lived in New Jersey, Minnesota and Illinois. She lives with her husband and son in Louisville.
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Gov. Matt Bevin has begun making changes among high-ranking employees in the state Energy and Environment Cabinet.Division of Forestry Director Leah…
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Kentucky regulators are petitioning the EPA to re-open the public comment period on the federal carbon dioxide rules that were finalized in June.The…
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The Secretary of Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet has officially submitted his resignation to Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear. Secretary Len…
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Part I of a two-part investigation. Read Part II here. Acrid smoke blanketed a neighborhood off Dixie Highway in Southwest Louisville on an unseasonably warm fall day last November. For
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Kentucky on Friday joined 23 other states in a legal challenge against the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations against carbon dioxide from…
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Another of Kentucky’s coal-fired power units will be shut down in the next few years, further reducing the state’s carbon dioxide emissions. Owensboro Municipal Utilities announced last week that it plans to shut down Unit 1 of the Elmer Smith
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Several federal agencies are celebrating a rare conservation success story in Kentucky. Since 1988, the white-haired goldenrod has been listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The plant is only found in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. And after years
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A new report issued by several non-profit and for-profit corporations takes a deeper look at air pollution from power plants in the U.S.The report ranks…
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This story has been updated. Environmental groups have once again announced their intention to sue an Eastern Kentucky coal company for allegedly falsifying the pollution reports it submits to the state. This is the fourth time in the past five
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In 25 years, Kentucky’s energy landscape will look dramatically different than it does now. As Energy and Environment Secretary Len Peters told a legislative committee last week, Kentucky is already facing the loss of the majority of its coal fleet