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  HEADLINES The U-S Fish and Wildlife Service can grant protections to the American bumblebee under the Endangered Species Act. In the past two decades, American bumblebee populations have dropped by 90%. —Linda Greene After months of lining up leases with several property owners to create a more-than-1,660-acre solar farm near Zionsville, NextEra Energy saw the project blocked in August …

In April of last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added a hazardous waste site in Spencer, Indiana to the Superfund’s National Priorities List. The EPA says contamination at the downtown Franklin Street Groundwater Contamination Site in Spencer, was, “due to the risk [chemicals] pose to human health and the environment.” In particular, the EPA cites contamination of the carcinogenic …

The town of Spencer resisted being named a Superfund site by the EPA. According to EPA documents obtained by WFHB, Spencer officials pushed back on the EPA’s designation, due to fears that being named a Superfund site would negatively affect property values. The town’s aquifer was named a Superfund site by the EPA last month. Superfund sites are eligible for …

Indiana’s Department of Natural Resources withdrew two controversial rule changes, which would have created a bobcat hunting season and would have required state-approved animal control workers to euthanize captured raccoons, coyotes and opossums; The General Assembly approved an oversight committee yesterday, to investigate issues plaguing Indiana’s Department of Child Services; Bloomington Public Works Director Adam Wason reports a rapidly changing, …

The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) is warning Indiana residents about the dangers of synthetic marijuana, after cases of severe bleeding across the state were linked to the legal drug. In a press release, the ISDH warned the drug, which also goes under the name spice, has the potential to cause severe–and even life-threatening–side effects. Dr. Daniel Rusyniak, medical …