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Northern 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 today has far fewer birds as compared to the millions of birds that inhabited the state, or passed through it, two hundred years ago. This report focuses on birds that are now extinct in Indiana.
People are spending more time outdoors because of the need for social distancing resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, and that’s placing them at greater risk of contracting tick-borne illnesses, according to a researcher at the IU School of Public Health.
Monroe County and two environmental groups filed a lawsuit to stop the implementation of a forest management plan for Hoosier National Forest they believe will pollute Lake Monroe, a major drinking water source for the area.
New York City is celebrating what the environmental advocacy organization three fifty dot org calls a huge victory. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has permanently cancelled plans for the Williams fracked gas pipeline in New York City.
The City of Houston has committed to 100% renewable energy. Mayor Sylvester Turner announced that the city has teamed up with NRG Energy to power all municipal operations with renewable energy beginning in July.
The US Forest Service appears to be deliberately stymieing the public’s input into a logging project in southeast Alaska in order to push the project forward despite local community opposition to it.
In a major victory for rural landowners, farmers and conservationists, a federal judge has ruled that the Federal Bureau of Land Management failed to take into account risks to local groundwater and the climate before approving the sale of 287 oil and gas leases in Montana.
Despite the fact that pipeline owner TC Energy hasn’t received all its permits, the first pipes of the highly contested Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline have been installed underground.
Joe Biden would rescind President Donald Trump’s permit allowing the Keystone XL oil pipeline to cross the border into the US, a move that would effectively kill the controversial project, his campaign told POLITICO on May 18.
One company is looking to end the need for plastic bottles that last hundreds of years and are rarely recycled. A Dutch company is planning to fight the plastic crisis with a plant-based alternative that degrades in one year.
