Eco Report

Two southwestern Indiana environmental health advocacy groups have received a significant grant to undertake regional monitoring of toxic and fine particle air pollution as well as some water pollution. Over forty-three billion dollars in low-interest loans earmarked for clean energy projects sit undistributed by the Trump administration, according to The New York Times. The U.S. solar sector has lost sixty-five …

Indiana Environmental Reporter Enrique Saenz reports on the struggle to safely close Coal Ash Storage Ponds

May fifteenth is National Endangered Species Day. It is celebrated to remind us of the importance of protecting endangered species and their habitats.  Legislation on endangered species was passed during the Nixon presidency. The Trump administration has weakened many parts of the act.  Suppressing the census count of frontline communities directly affected by climate disaster would further inequity, especially when …

Your environmental headlines:  Every year over one hundred climate scientists fly far into the wilderness and bore deep into Greenland’s largest glacier. Their work is complicated and important. The project is trying to understand how ice streams underneath the glacier are pushing vast amounts of ice into the ocean and how this contributes to rising sea levels. But this year …

Last year marked the fourth year in a row that the Atlantic hurricane season saw above-average activity, and it doesn’t look like this year will provide any relief. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse, the EPA has issued what amounts to a license to pollute. Polluting industries claim that the disease has caused staff absences that make it difficult …

According to a new report from the environmental and indigenous rights group Amazon Watch, five of the world’s largest banks are funding crude oil extraction in the western Amazon rainforest. After immense conservation efforts, the numbers of critically endangered black rhinoceroses is slowly ticking up, according to the latest figures released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, as …

A report from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz about PFAS Disposal

The world’s tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. A study published in the journal Nature found that in fifteen years the Amazon could turn from a carbon absorber into a carbon emitter, due to wildfires, deforestation and the excess greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere.  At a time when we need to be …

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 …

China has banned the trade and consumption of wild animals in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than 2700 lives and infected more than 81,000 people, most of them in China, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. BreakFreeFromPlastic engaged over 71,000 volunteers from 51 countries to conduct 484 brand audits. The volunteers collected plastic waste …