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You’re listening to Eco Report on WFHB for Friday, January 19th, 2024. Later in the program, we will listen to Part 3 by Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze as he speaks with a homesteader and sustainability educator from Spencer, Indiana about her life journey in academia and as a nature lover from a young age. Also, WFHB Correspondent Elyse Perry reports …

This week on Eco Report, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze gets an update from Steven Stewart of Indiana Forest Alliance on positive and negative developments affecting climate, habitat, water and air quality in the region as windows of opportunity for public input draw to a close. And now for your environmental reports: The Grain Belt Express is a power line that …

HEADLINES Station WYHI (Terre Haute) reports bee populations are declining. More than half of the bat species in the United States are in severe decline or listed as endangered. And international scientists recently announced the monarch butterfly is perilously close to extinction. —Norm Holy A new study from the First Street Foundation has shown the coming development of what it …

HEADLINES The federal Inflation Reduction Act, according to a story by WFYI, could help Indiana utilities and other businesses to adopt renewable energy like solar — but whether it will encourage Indiana residents to do the same is unclear. —Norm Holy The Indiana Environmental Reporter said in a press release that the EPA and the State of Indiana filed a …

HEADLINES WFIU reported the northern Indiana utility NIPSCO wants to raise rates to clean up coal ash ponds at its Michigan City coal plant. Other utilities in the state may be following suit. Activists say NIPSCO’s customers shouldn’t have to pay for what they call an “incomplete” cleanup. —Norm Holy Pam Roberts, with MC-IRIS, has identified the Callery Pear as …

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 …