Tag Archives: Oil

This week, we hear the first part of the recent webinar ‘USA vs. Jessica Reznicek: fighting the criminalization of Water Protectors’.  The webinar description reads: “Since the No-DAPL movement, dozens of states have passed critical infrastructure laws that increase criminal penalties for anyone taking action against destructive fossil fuel projects. In 2017, 80 Republicans and 4 Democrats asked the Justice Department …

More than three years after the epic pipeline began pumping crude oil across the country, Boasberg has stated, “given the seriousness of the Corps’ NEPA error, the impossibility of a simple fix, and the fact that Dakota Access did assume much of its economic risk knowingly, and the potential harm each day the pipeline operates, the Court is forced to …

In this week’s episode of Eco Report, WFHB’s Julie Thomas and Julianna Daily report on human overpopulation is threatening iconic animals in the Masai Mara and Serengeti and the Bloomington city council’s  update on the Unified Development Ordinance during their meeting, last week. Also in this week’s news a federal judge in Alaska ruled on Friday that President Trump exceeded …

Republicans in the Indiana House of Representatives have turned a bill about medical cannabidiol oil, into a bill deregulating firearm ownership. After the adoption of a similar bill in the Indiana Senate, Rep. William Friend (R-Macy) and other House Republicans changed the bill to do away with restrictions on firearm permitting. Rep. Matt Pierce (D-Bloomington) sits on both bills conference …

A new report shows groundwater across the state is being contaminated by unsafe amounts of toxic heavy metals from coal ash; Bloomington will roll out 150 ‘smart bikes’ as part of a new bike share program, this Spring; Black Lives Matter is encouraging residents to contact Mayor John Hamilton’s office, and give their opinions about the city’s purchase of an armored …

In this week’s episode of “Eco Report” WFHB’s David Lyman and Julianna Dailey report on Brown County Water Utilities federal lawsuit against the Nashville Town Council, the City of Bloomington’s December deer cull success in culling sixty-two deer from the Lake Griffy Nature Preserve and Indiana Attorney Curtis Hill’s multi-million-dollar agreement to address alleged violations of environmental regulations at an …

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