Ryan Van Velzer
Ryan Van Velzer is the Energy & Environment reporter at Louisville Public Media. He is dedicated to covering climate change and environmental issues across Kentucky.
Ryan graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and has more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has worked for The Arizona Republic, The Associated Press, The South Florida Sun Sentinel and as a travel reporter in Central America and Southeast Asia.
He has won numerous awards including regional Edward R. Murrow awards, Associated Press Broadcasters awards and Society of Professional Journalists Louisville Pro Chapter awards.
Email him at rvanvelzer@lpm.org.
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Pollution from the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, is flowing down the Ohio River, but utility officials say it does not pose a health concern to Louisville’s drinking water.
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One layer to the soundtrack of spring in Kentucky will crescendo in the coming weeks as the skies fill with the ethereal cooing of sandhill cranes.
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The storm swept across the country ahead of Christmas with strong winds and freezing temperatures that killed two people in Kentucky and dozens more across the U.S. An estimated 1.6 million people lost electricity across the East Coast during the event and dozens of people died.
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It is now cheaper to build local solar farms than to continue operating Kentucky’s remaining coal-fired power plants, according to a new study from the nonpartisan climate policy think tank Energy Innovation Policy and Technology.
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Kentucky’s white-tailed deer harvest rivaled some of the highest on record, beating every season since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear lauded hydrogen’s economic development potential in front of a packed house at the Kentucky Oil and Gas Association’s first hydrogen summit in Louisville on Wednesday.
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Environmental advocates packed a courtroom in Bullitt County ahead of arguments over Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities’ plan to condemn conservation lands owned by Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.
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Kentucky has joined a second regional hydrogen hub to foster growth in an emerging industry that has the potential to move the state toward a cleaner energy future, though it will begin with a reliance on fossil fuels.
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Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams called for increasing the number of voting locations during a Wednesday debrief of the November election.
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The planet is facing a biodiversity crisis, and Kentucky is no exception. The swamp rabbit, the eastern mud turtle, the willow flycatcher and the beloved monarch butterfly are among more than 300 vulnerable species facing an elevated risk of extinction in Kentucky.