Tag Archives: environment

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel at the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights in Part Two of an ongoing series. More in the bottom half of tonight’s program. Also coming up in the next half hour, More Phony Phoners …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, March 21st, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel at the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have some recent prison-related news and announcements from the producers of Kite Line …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, February 28th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with Emily Hamilton – a senior research fellow and Director of the Urbainity Project at George Mason University – about affordable housing. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB Correspondent Nathaniel Weinzapfel reports …

 This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, February 9th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB News speaks with Emily Weikert-Bryant, Executive Director of Feeding Indiana’s Hungry, who urges state lawmakers to vote no on House Bill 1354. The bill would make it harder for residents to receive SNAP benefits. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, January 26th, 2022. Later in the program, MCCSC bus drivers complained about poor working conditions during last night’s school board meeting. More in your daily headlines. Also coming up in the next half hour, “Three Scams, Three Media” on Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog segment on WFHB. But first, your Environmental …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, January 18th, 2022. Later in the program, we have a Few Minutes with the Mayor – a biweekly segment where we ask Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton about community issues. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, the EPA recently announced that it will enforce pollution regulations …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, January 4th, 2021. This week, we will take a look back at the stories we covered in the year 2021. In today’s episode, you will hear WFHB Correspondent Aaron Comforty report on a company that focuses on using artificial intelligence and drone technology to construct environmentally sound buildings out of natural materials. …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, January 3rd, 2021. This week, we will take a look back at the stories we covered in the year 2021. In today’s episode, we will review the second part of environmental stories from this past year. You will hear Nathaniel Weinzapfel speak with an IU researcher on drylands, Kade Young covers lead …

Early this summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved to declassify three PCB contamination Superfund sites in the surrounding Bloomington area. The decommission of these clean up sites from the National Priority List draws a decades long local environmental movement to a close. For those who were there to witness the contamination and resulting fights for public health and environmental …

This week, we share an urgent statement from the Free Alabama Movement about their ongoing hunger strike and economic blackout. Afterwards, we speak with David Pellow, Fabiana Lake, and Camber Wilson, who recently coauthored a report on ‘Environmental Justice Struggles in Prisons and Jails Around the World,’  via the Prison Environmental Justice Project.  Environmental justice is an even more important …