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Eco Report – July 23, 2020

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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 …

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Eco Report – March 12, 2020

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At least a half-dozen utilities have released plans to get to net-zero emissions, or close to it, by twenty fifty. Now a Michigan company has said that it will get to net-zero emissions by twenty forty, the fastest timetable of any major utility in the country. The Trump administration has formally revised a proposal that would significantly restrict the type …

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Anthony Wier Discusses the Dangers of Strategic Nuclear Weapons

Congress is considering a recommendation by the Trump administration that would allow for the deployment of ‘strategic’ nuclear weapons. Secretary of Defense James Mattis argued the smaller warheads could be deployed on submarine-launched ballistic missiles, allowing for the U.S. to deploy a ‘proportional response’ to the use of nuclear weapons by other countries, namely Russia. Opponents argue the smaller warheads …

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Title X Changes to Challenge Planned Parenthood Funding

The Trump-Pence administration announced changes to Title X funding, last week. The Nixon-era federal healthcare program provides funding for family planning and reproductive health services. Those services, which include cancer screenings, sexually-transmitted infection checks, birth control, and pregnancy testing, primarily serve low-income families and the uninsured. Under the proposed rule changes to Title X, which have yet to be ratified, …

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Daily Local News – February 28, 2019

Gun control advocates will protest outside of the Statehouse in Indianapolis this weekend; Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said Wednesday he will try to build public support for a hate crimes bill; Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb admitted yesterday that he used marijuana in college, despite currently opposing its legalization in Indiana; Online pothole and road hazard reporting is now available on …

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Eco Report – January 17th, 2019

In this week’s radio rundown of ecological news WFHB’s Todd Wicks and Julianna Dailey report on Bloomington’s Maple Heights neighborhood being the subject of a fight over urbanization and gentrification, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro transferring responsibility for indigenous lands to the Department of Agriculture and the prairie restoration project,Kankakee Sands, near Morocco, Indiana, obtaining sixteen new bison calves.  All this and more …

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Eco Report – December 27th, 2018

In this week’s radio rundown of ecological news, WFHB’s Glenn and Linda Lightner report on Researcher at the University of Portsmouth using plant fibers as a manufacturing material in cars, scientist developing drought- resistant crops and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources announcing that people can expect to see more coyotes through the winter.  Also in this week’s news will …

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Trump Tariff Proposal Misrepresents Purdue Study

A study by Purdue University is being used by the federal Commerce Department, as the basis for President Trump’s proposed steel tariff plans. Thomas Hertel, of the Global Trade Analysis Project at Purdue, says his study is being misused by the Commerce Department to sell the administration’s 25 percent tax on imported steel. Hertel wrote in a statement that the …

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Voices in the Street: “Do you think the government should fund the arts and humanities?”

Last week the Trump administration released a preliminary budget proposal for 2018. The proposal covers discretionary spending and thus spending on the arts and humanities. The proposed budget calls for eliminating future federal support for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Voices in the Street has posed the …

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