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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe 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. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:48 — 7.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA report from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz about changes that are proposed for crop planning by Hoosier farmers.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:47 — 20.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMinnesota 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:08 — 2.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA feature from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz about Monroe County’s fight against the US Forest Service regarding water pollution.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThere 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreNorthern 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreTwo 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, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:36 — 7.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana Environmental Reporter Enrique Saenz reports on the struggle to safely close Coal Ash Storage Ponds