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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A report card issued by an advocacy group says solar jobs in Kentucky are still relatively few, but are growing.
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Monday at his rally in Louisville, President Trump repeated a campaign promise, telling the crowd he would revive Kentucky’s beleaguered coal industry.
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Do the new regulations strengthen the requirements for new coal ash sites, as the department keeps insisting? Or do they weaken them?
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Fish tissue sampling has revealed the coal ash pond’s selenium runoff has poisoned aquatic life in a popular lake. -
The state's coal industry is shrinking fast; more than 10,000 workers have lost their jobs since 2008. A small firm in eastern Kentucky is turning unemployed coal workers into software developers.
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Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration has filed a lawsuit against a second Kentucky abortion provider, alleging the facility provided abortions without a… -
Kentucky environmental advocates are worried that budget reductions called for by Gov. Matt Bevin will make it impossible for the Energy and Environment… -
EnvironmentA landfill in Eastern Kentucky will shrink after the company, state and citizens’ groups reached an agreement Tuesday.The Big Run Landfill in Boyd County… -
EnvironmentThe Secretary of Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet has officially submitted his resignation to Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear. Secretary Len… -
EnvironmentThe Environmental Protection Agency’s final draft of the Clean Power Plan includes stricter regulations than originally proposed. But under one of the two…
