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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Issues such as deep poverty, lagging reading proficiency and children living away from their parents are still major hurdles for Kentucky children. -
The GOP tax plan is out, and Kentucky’s representatives are weighing in. Predictably, they fall into three camps: Republicans, Democrat and Rand Paul.
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Steven Gardner of Lexington consulting firm ECSI has more than four decades of experience working with and advocating for the mining industry. -
Now, people won’t be able to smoke e-cigarettes or hookahs in indoor public places and work sites. There are exceptions for vape shops and hookah lounges.
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For a lot of people, August 21’s solar eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event. But for solar panels, it means a day of reduced energy production.
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Researchers at Virginia Tech say there's a dearth of scientific research into why disparities exist, and how environmental factors could be contributing.
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EnvironmentPointing to years of documented pollution from a coal ash pond at a Central Kentucky power plant, environmental groups are suing Kentucky Utilities. -
Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes says her office will not release state voter data to President Donald Trump’s election commission.
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A U.S. House committee has advanced a bill that would send a billion dollars for mine reclamation and economic development in coal communities.
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The Kentucky Public Service Commission will allow LG&E and KU to raise their utility rates, but not as much as was agreed to in a settlement in April.
