WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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This year’s fourth of July celebrations in Bloomington will be happening tonight, July third; Hot weather is causing complications for the Monroe County Fair; Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is being accused of groping a lawmaker and three legislative staffers at a party, earlier this year; The Bloomington City Council approved a ten year tax break for an affordable housing development during their session last week.
FEATURE
After they found out that a coal-to-diesel plant is being planned to open in their downtown, residents of Dale, Indiana organized. They came together and founded the grassroots Southwestern Indiana Citizens for Quality of Life, with the help of the environmental advocacy organization Valley watch in Evansville. Mary Hess is the president of Southwestern Indiana Citizens for Quality of Life. She says residents are concerned about the environmental impact of the proposed coal to diesel plant on Spencer county, which is already one of the most polluted counties in the country. There currently are no other coal-to-diesel plants in the country. And only a handful of others exist – in Russia and China. Hess says organizers have been assured that the environmental impact of the proposed plant would be minimal, and the term ‘clean coal’ gets thrown around a lot. We hear from Southwestern Indiana Citizens for Quality of Life President Mary Hess, in today’s Feature Report.
BICENTENNIAL JOURNAL
The Bicentennial Journal—looking back on 200 years of history in South Central Indiana.
CREDITS
Anchors: Jenna Jankowski and Don Geyra
Today’s headlines were written by Wes Martin
Along with Sarah Vaughan for CATSweek, a partnership with Community Access Television Services.
Our feature was produced by Wes Martin
The Biccentennial Journal is produced by Kate Welch, with help from Joyce Polling,
Our engineer today is Megan Wade
Our theme music is provided by Dani Graf, Ben Lumsdaine, and Scott Schmadeke.
Executive Producer is Wes Martin
