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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:26 — 69.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | More In this edition of Eco Report, Kade Young and Noelle Herhusky-Schneider continue their conversation with Maggie Sullivan, the Watershed Coordinator for the Friends of Lake Monroe, discussing the history of the lake and its crucial role in the Bloomington water supply. Eight percent of Indiana’s corn …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:50 — 79.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s edition of Eco Report EXTRA, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze gets an update from the Indiana State House in a conversation with Tim Maloney, Senior Policy Director for the Hoosier Environmental Council (HEC) on bills moving through the Indiana Legislature that relate to the ecological …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:05 — 40.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES The Observer, the student newspaper at Notre Dame, reports the university has pledged to become a carbon-neutral campus by 2050, University President Friar John Jenkins announced last Friday. —Norm Holy IndyStar reports that an Indiana University scientist will lead an ambitious effort to determine the effect …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 22.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA British Petroleum refinery in northwest Indiana repeatedly violated air pollution standards for soot emissions between 2015 and 2018, a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit brought by environmental advocates, as reported by the Associated Press. —Norm Holy Indiana Public Radio reports that one of Indiana’s largest …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:07 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA big reason for Indiana’s pollution is coal. Coal has shown to be a very dirty and detrimental fossil fuel for the environment, one of the main causes to climate change. Coal ash is the product of burning coal for electricity use. The waste product contains toxic …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreTrump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has weakened yet another safeguard against air pollution in the midst of a respiratory pandemic. The agency finalized a rollback of the Clinton-era “once in, always in” policy that required major polluters like industrial plants and refineries to maintain the highest possible …

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: 29:00 — 18.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe International Union for the Conservation of Nature carried out a detailed, multi-year study showing that climate collapse and environmental degradation are fueling violence against women and girls and that gender-based exploitation is hurting our ability to tackle the environmental crises. The global fossil fuel industry emits 25-40 percent …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:57 — 3.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLocal residents are heading to Washington DC this weekend to lobby members of congress for a solution to climate change. The group, Citizens Climate Lobby, is purporting a solution to global climate change by implementing a carbon fee and dividend. In this conversation with Macia Veldman, with …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:09 — 16.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEco Report is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take …