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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 thousand jobs due to the COVID-19 crisis, erasing five years of job gains, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.
Under cover of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EPA approved the use of a new herbicide, isoxaflutole, without the mandated public input. The EPA approved isoxaflutole for use in twenty-five states, Indiana not among them, by bypassing the standard public input process for the approval.
Two of the nation’s most popular national parks, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon, are starting to reopen to visitors, despite the continuing pandemic.
A company called Texas LNG has proposed a liquified natural gas terminal in Brownsville, Texas, that would damage six hundred twenty-five acres of land, with two hundred eighty-two acres permanently affected.
The American red wolf is critically endangered and the world’s most endangered canid [KAY-nid]. Only fifteen to twenty red wolves are left in the wild, all in eastern North Carolina. The North Carolina Zoo has just announced that five American red wolf pups were born at the zoo on April twenty-first as part of the zoo’s breeding program. All five pups and their mother are healthy and thriving.
A decrease in funding during the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing that the pandemic requires are taking their toll on Indiana environmental organizations.
While Yosemite National Park has been closed to visitors in response to the COVID-19 epidemic, park officials say wild bears that live in the park are having a ball.
Vectren customers generating their own solar power would be compensated less for the extra energy they send back to the power grid under a request filed with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, or IURC.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is asking paddlers to report their wildlife observations while paddling Indiana waterways from June 1st to July 31st. Anyone interested can learn more or sign up to volunteer by visiting IN.gov/Paddlecraftindex.
