Eco Report

A Feature from Indiana Environmental Reporter covering a new bill in Congress proposing to make Carbon Credits available to farmers was proposed by Hoosier Senator Mike Braun. The story is by IER’s reporter Enrique Saenz.

The recently released Wind Powers America Annual Report says wind-supported jobs in the Hoosier state more than doubled last year. Indiana ranks in the top five for wind energy employment throughout the country. MidAmerican Energy crews have completed work on a direct current ultra-fast electric vehicle charging station. Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, is outdoing itself. It has petitioned the …

The US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the company Energy Transfer to shutter and empty the Dakota Access Pipeline, the largest pipeline transporting oil from North Dakota to Midwest and Gulf Coast refineries. The court gave Energy Transfer thirty days to make the changes. Recently we reported that the long battle to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline …

The future of the northern white rhino is looking bleak. Only two are left in the world—both are female. But scientists have a costly plan to save them from extinction. The plastics industry is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to reverse progress on eliminating single-use plastics. The industry is using the pandemic to scare people about the safety risk in using …

A report from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz about changes that are proposed for crop planning by Hoosier farmers.

Minnesota recently became the first state in the union to ban TCE, short for trichloroethylene, a volatile organic compound that’s used to manufacture refrigerant chemicals and is also used as a solvent for degreasing and as a spot cleaner in dry cleaning. It’s also in several common household products. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is an important federal consumer watchdog …

The Petersburg, IN power plant has violated its permit more than 120 times in the last three years. That’s the most of any such facility in Indiana. And, now, they will have to pay for it. A new biannual ranking released by researchers at Yale and Columbia finds that the U.S. is nowhere near the top in environmental performance, according to …

A feature from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz about Monroe County’s fight against the US Forest Service regarding water pollution.

There are many experiments in agrivoltaics, or co-locating solar panels and food production, being undertaken around the United States. In defiance of a court order, the Trump administration Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not regulate perchlorate, a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel that contaminates drinking water and harms the development of fetuses and small children. Pepsico, the world’s second-largest …

Northern Indiana Public Service’s plan to close five Indiana coal ash ponds at a power plant along Lake Michigan and move coal ash to a landfill has sparked concerns from environmental activists about how the dust kicked up by that project will be controlled. The Indiana of today has far fewer birds as compared to the millions of birds that …