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WFHB Local News – August 30th, 2023

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 30th, 2023. Later in the program, WFHB News continues its coverage on Lake Monroe – how healthy is it and how long will it survive? – on Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Survey Says – Scam …

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Deep Dive: Lake Monroe Watershed (Part 2)

This is Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate where we look into issues regarding Health, Housing, and the Environment that directly impact residents of Monroe County. We are looking into the Lake Monroe Watershed and the water quality. This week, we look into pollutants in the watershed. According to the Friends of Lake Monroe Watershed Management Plan, pollutants such …

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Environmental Activism in Bloomington: The History of PCB Contamination

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 …

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PCBs in Monroe County: When Will They Be Gone?

The state of Indiana has a bad reputation for pollution. It may lead some to wonder: Why? One of the largest reasons came from the man-made material called PCB, short for Polychlorinated Biphenyl. PCBs are made from 209 individual chlorinated compounds called congeners. They range from light oily fluids to heavy oils, greases and waxes. The use of PCBs began …

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