Tag Archives: Endangered Species Act

  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 …

HEADLINES All Stories by Norm Holy In recent months, utilities have repeatedly raised rates to cover the skyrocketing costs of the coal and gas needed to run their plants as well as the energy they had to buy from the grid when some of those plants unexpectedly shut down. In a case that could cast a cloud on the Hoosier …

  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 …

HEADLINES The Indiana Environmental Reporter reviews the past and future of forests on state land. In the 1970s and 80s, Republican Indiana governors Orr and Bowen established three backcountry areas in state forests that would keep the backwoods intact and logging at bay. Today they are no longer safe from being logged. —Norm Holy A federal court in Los Angeles …

HEADLINES Two environmental groups are putting real-time air monitoring data in the hands of citizens and giving those community members the power to make informed decisions about their health each day. —Norm Holy After losing an Indiana Court of Appeals decision, opponents of the proposed Lone Oak solar farm are asking the Indiana Supreme Court to review their case against …

Morton Solar held a ribbon cutting July 15 after donating two solar energy systems to Community Action Program of Evansville for two homes located near downtown Evansville. Three Indiana environmental organizations—the Hoosier Environmental Council, Friends of Lake Monroe and Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter—collaborated to demand that the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, or DNR, review its policies after the July …

The Australian Supreme Court has stepped in to put an immediate halt to a logging project in east Victoria while it waits for cases about the health of native species to be heard in court. If you look at the Nobel Prize website page, Svante August Arrhenius was born in 1859, the son of Svante Gustaf Arrhenius and Carolina Christina …

 The iconic Doomsday Clock, symbolizing the gravest perils facing humankind, is now closer to midnight than at any point since its creation in nineteen forty-seven. Madagascar has embarked on its most ambitious tree-planting drive yet, aiming to plant sixty million trees in the coming months. The mounting climate emergency may spur the next global financial crisis, and the world’s central …