Environment

Freezing rain and sleet accumulated on roadways overnight, causing car accidents and school closures across Jefferson County.

Kentucky hunters harvested nearly 145,000 deer in the season that ended Jan.16, more than any other season since the onset of the pandemic.

Several utilities in the Southeast, including Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities, underestimated energy demand and lost pressure to natural gas power plants on the coldest day of the year. It caused rolling blackouts for about 53,000 ratepayers.

Gov. Andy Beshear said he’s eager to develop the hydrogen market in Kentucky to boost the state’s economy and give it a foothold in the country’s energy future.

A contractor died while working at Louisville Gas and Electric’s Mill Creek Generating Station on Monday night.

Amid the intertwining crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, a 2-century-old Catholic convent outside Loretto, Ky. has signed a conservation easement to protect more than 650 acres of natural lands.

Later this month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will re-classify the northern long-eared bat as an endangered species. WFPL’s Ryan Van Velzer reports on bat habitat in Kentucky under threat from a proposed natural gas pipeline in Bullitt County, the state’s biodiversity loss and what can be done to stop it.

Thanks to a new federal law, cities will get better forecasts about how climate change intensifies rainstorms. Still, it won't be in time for billions of dollars of federal infrastructure spending.

Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest and Louisville Gas and Electric offered closing arguments Wednesday in a hearing that will decide the utility’s right to take conservation lands to build a natural gas pipeline.

Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities are going to trial to take lands from Bernheim Research Forest and Arboretum to build a natural gas pipeline in northern Bullitt County.