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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:31 — 20.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor the last decade, the DNR has allowed logging during the summer because they had been given the OK from the U.S. Forest Service, or USFS, that there were no bats roosting in the area to be logged. This was the ruling even when bats were caught …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDid hurricane Isaias impact turtle nesting? Sea turtles nest on beaches from Florida to North Carolina. The nesting season starts in April in Florida and in May farther north and ends in October. — Norm Holy Greenland is known for its glaciers, but in the past month, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:22 — 3.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA report from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz regarding plans to dispose of toxic coal ash waiting in a sensitive landfill in Northern Indiana.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 20.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Muncie Indiana Star Press reports that AquaBounty Technologies, a land-based salmon farming pioneer, has successfully commenced the commercial-scale harvest of conventional Atlantic salmon raised at its first farm in the United States. According to Alexis Baden-Mayer, of the Organic Consumers Association, in testimony presented to the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:15 — 7.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAn Indiana Environmental Reporter feature from correspondent Enrique Saenz on attempts to regulate the 5000+ PFAS chemicals as a group, rather than individually.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAs reported in the Los Angeles Times, the Trump administration has lifted a major hurdle for development of the Pebble Mine, a massive gold and copper mine in the wilds of Alaska despite fears that it will poison the world’s largest sockeye salmon run. Even after the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:57 — 5.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA report by Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz about a dispute about air pollution in Huntington, IN.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 21.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMorton 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:23 — 5.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA 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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 21.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe 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 …