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In this week’s edition of Eco Report EXTRA, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze gets an update from the Indiana State House in a conversation with Tim Maloney, Senior Policy Director for the Hoosier Environmental Council (HEC) on bills moving through the Indiana Legislature that relate to the ecological health of our state. Maloney is the prime emissary of the HEC to …

HEADLINES The Observer, the student newspaper at Notre Dame, reports the university has pledged to become a carbon-neutral campus by 2050, University President Friar John Jenkins announced last Friday. —Norm Holy IndyStar reports that an Indiana University scientist will lead an ambitious effort to determine the effect toxic chemicals have on an indigenous community in Alaska — research that might …

A British Petroleum refinery in northwest Indiana repeatedly violated air pollution standards for soot emissions between 2015 and 2018, a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit brought by environmental advocates, as reported by the Associated Press. —Norm Holy Indiana Public Radio reports that one of Indiana’s largest coal plants is expected to close in the next seven years. Indiana Michigan …

A big reason for Indiana’s pollution is coal. Coal has shown to be a very dirty and detrimental fossil fuel for the environment, one of the main causes to climate change. Coal ash is the product of burning coal for electricity use. The waste product contains toxic chemicals such as arsenic, lead, mercury and selenium. Indiana currently has the largest …

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has weakened yet another safeguard against air pollution in the midst of a respiratory pandemic. The agency finalized a rollback of the Clinton-era “once in, always in” policy that required major polluters like industrial plants and refineries to maintain the highest possible levels of pollution controls as long as they continued to operate, Reuters reported. …

Two southwestern Indiana environmental health advocacy groups have received a significant grant to undertake regional monitoring of toxic and fine particle air pollution as well as some water pollution. Over forty-three billion dollars in low-interest loans earmarked for clean energy projects sit undistributed by the Trump administration, according to The New York Times. The U.S. solar sector has lost sixty-five …

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature carried out a detailed, multi-year study showing that climate collapse and environmental degradation are fueling violence against women and girls and that gender-based exploitation is hurting our ability to tackle the environmental crises. The global fossil fuel industry emits 25-40 percent more methane than previously thought, a study published in Nature found. This includes …

Local residents are heading to Washington DC this weekend to lobby members of congress for a solution to climate change. The group, Citizens Climate Lobby, is purporting a solution to global climate change by implementing a carbon fee and dividend. In this conversation with Macia Veldman, with the Citizen’s Climate Lobby, WFHB Correspondent Jonah Chester learns that the group aims …

Eco Report is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live. Each program features timely …

Eco Report is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live. Each program features timely …