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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Business and the Economy"Met coal” is low-ash, low-sulfur coal used to make steel, and it's in demand. But unlike West Virginia and Pennsylvania, Kentucky doesn't have much of it.
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EnvironmentFor people living in the affected areas, there’s no concerted outreach to let them know about the emergency plans’ existence.
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EnvironmentThe board was abolished by a bill that passed the state legislature earlier this year, with little discussion or fanfare.
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This is officially the center’s second hemp crop — the first was planted last August and yielded a few dozen pounds of plants.
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Capturing carbon dioxide from power plants is, at least theoretically, a good way to reduce one of the top gases that contributes to climate change. But...
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Federal data released last month shows the 42 million tons of coal the commonwealth produced in 2016 was eclipsed by Pennsylvania and Illinois.
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It's not just you — it's a lot more expensive to get through the doors at Churchill Downs for the Oaks or Kentucky Derby than it used to be.
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A Kentucky environmental attorney is challenging the state's controversial new coal ash regulations. The standards are set to go into effect Friday.
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It started with a video that began circulating Sunday evening of a man being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville.
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Several intervenors in the case requested either the case be dismissed or they be given more time to review documents, after LG&E submitted a revised document last week.