In today’s feature report, WFHB Correspondent Katrine Bruner provides the history of PCBs in Monroe County. But first, your local headlines. Planning Director Kevin Tolloty proposed a tax abatement for Richland Senior Citizen Housing to the Ellettsville Town Council. Hoosier Energy plans to close a Sullivan County power plant due to a switch to more environmentally sustainable sources of energy. …
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Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Guest host today is John Ward. Don calls in from Florida, talk about new Federal deregulation of water quality laws, more about clear cutting and burning in our area, John mentions coyotes on his property this time of year, they …
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On December 20, 2019 President Trump signed the bill for the national increase of purchasing and using tobacco devices from 18 to 21. The bill took immediate effect once signed. Beginning in the summer of 2020, it will be a violation of federal law to sell any smoking and tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21. 20 …
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Welcome to the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020. In today’s feature report, WFHB Correspondent Rasha Kamhawy dives into an interview with Bloomington Black Lives Matter. Meanwhile, Katrine Bruner provides a recap of the recently passed smoking age restriction. But first, your local headlines. Bloomington Fourth Street parking garage construction delays are costing the city $2,000 a week …
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Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Guest host today is John Ward. Caller mentions logging 375 acres in the southern watershed, it will be logged and burned. Don calls in and talks about fires in Australia, Rich talks about the topics brought up in the public hearing sponsored by the League of Women Voters and Friends …
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Norm Holy interviews Robert Colangelo about Vertical Farming.
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Recycling has been growing exponentially for years, but it wasn’t until recently that cities have found issues with the abundance of recycling and contamination issues from it. Junior Correspondent Katrine Bruner reports on the impact that contaminated recycling has on the City of Bloomington and Monroe County. It’s the crack of dawn and as many citizens of Bloomington are asleep …
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This Feature covers bills currently before the Indiana General Assembly with possible environmental implications.
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The mountain gorilla population grew from 480 to 604 over the period from 2010 to 2016. The recipient of the first Mariano Abarca Award for Environmental Defense went to the Movement in Defense of Life and Territory in Chiapas, Mexico. Bindi Irwin, the twenty-one-year-old daughter of Steve Irwin, said that the Australia Zoo run by her family was hard at …
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