Ryan Van Velzer
Energy and Environment ReporterRyan 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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American Synthetic Rubber Company is facing more than $100,000 in fines for releasing excess amounts of air pollution into the city’s industrial corridor and neighborhoods nearby and failing to notify regulators. -
The historic flooding that killed 45 people in eastern Kentucky last July also destroyed one of the few grocery stores in Letcher County. Now, the IGA in Isom is back open for business.
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With the favorite to win the 149th Kentucky Derby scratching the morning of the race, LPM's Ryan Van Velzer went in search of a new bet.
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A state worker says billboard companies are in conversation with the state Department of Transportation to cut down hundreds of trees that block visibility of their advertisements along interstates in Jefferson County.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is working with the city of Louisville to develop novel technology measuring toxic air pollution from Rubbertown -- the city’s industrial corridor. Five years later, they’ve got the first full year of results.
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Kentucky Republicans have spent the last two years pushing back against corporate environmental, social and governance goals while accepting funds from pro-ESG companies to renovate and expand the party’s headquarters.
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Eastern Kentucky’s largest power provider, serving more than 165,000 ratepayers, canceled a previously announced $2.6 billion sale to Liberty Utilities.
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More than 100 acres of forest has burned in the Natural Bridge State Resort Park and Nature Preserve in Slade, Kentucky.
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A Bullitt County judge ruled in favor of Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities late last month. But Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest is appealing the decision that would allow a gas pipeline to be built through conservation lands.
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The mass shooting in Chickasaw Park on Saturday has prompted some west Louisville residents to call for immediate improvements to public safety in their neighborhoods and support for youth development programs.
