Air Pollution
Transportation surpasses coal-fired power plants for most carbon-dioxide emissions
The switch to cleaner energy has reduced carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants to the point that cars, trucks, and airplanes emit more CO2...
How Louisville’s bad air quality is “like a sunburn” for your...
Tuesday was the first Ozone Alert Day of Louisville's early summer season. The Air Pollution Control District warned us yesterday that ozone levels would be in...
Study: Air pollution from traffic, factories leading to rise in premature...
Pollution from traffic, factories, and other industrial activities may be causing thousands of premature births each year and costing the U.S. billions of dollars,...
Study: Reducing carbon emissions could prevent 175,000 pollution-related deaths by 2030
"Reducing U.S. climate emissions enough to avoid a 2-degree Celsius increase in global warming could prevent up to 175,000 pollution-related premature deaths nationwide by...
Study shows that coal particles are much more likely to cause...
Research has found that particles from burning of coal and other fossil fuels are "far more dangerous than average" particulates that pollute the air,...
What Kentucky can learn from Utah about improving air quality
Utah and Kentucky have a few characteristics in common. Both are red states, both have a strong energy sector. Both states have large rural...
EPA report shows that methane emissions down, greenhouse gas emissions rising
Oil and gas industry greenhouse gas emissions are on the rise, but methane leakage continues to fall, according to an Environmental Protection Agency report...
This new map compares breathing bad air to smoking cigarettes
Most people who don’t smoke have a visceral reaction to the smell. I was in Maysville last fall and went into a restaurant where...
Series examines coal’s bleak future and the battle lines being drawn...
Nearly 200 old coal power plants have closed in the last five years, and dozens more are on the brink of closure, John Cushman...