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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, November 21st, 2023. In today’s feature report, WFHB Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze gets an update from Steven Stewart of Indiana Forest Alliance on positive and negative developments affecting climate, habitat, water and air quality in the region. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Lil Bub’s …

This week on Eco Report, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze gets an update from Steven Stewart of Indiana Forest Alliance on positive and negative developments affecting climate, habitat, water and air quality in the region as windows of opportunity for public input draw to a close. And now for your environmental reports: The Grain Belt Express is a power line that …

Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For WFHB, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Frank Marshalek. Coming up later in this edition of Eco Report, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze gets an update from Steven Stewart of the Indiana Forest Alliance on a new attempt at prescribed burning and logging proposed for the Lake Monroe watershed. And now for your environmental reports: The …

  Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For WFHB, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Frank Marshalek. Coming up later in today’s program, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze will talk with Delaney Barber the Outreach, Energy and Climate Coordinator for the Hoosier Environmental Council. And now for your environmental reports: The following story is quite long, so we have broken it up into several …

Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For W-F-H-B, I’m Cynthia Roberts and I’m Frank Marshalek. Later in the program, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with Bill Brown in the second part of an interview with the eco architect. In today’s segment, they discuss the cost benefit analysis of solar energy, adressing the price compared to fossil fuels, financial incentives available, as well as …

A 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 coal plants is expected to close in the next seven years. Indiana Michigan …

A feature from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz reports that two Indiana cities recently passed the EPA’s standards for air quality.

The City of Bloomington continues to battle the emerald ash borer, an Asian beetle that feeds on ash trees. Last week, the Board of Park Commissioners approved an $11,000 contract with Ellington Tree Service to remove thirteen infested trees. In the same meeting, the Board approved a 45 thousand dollar contract with Runsdell, Ernsberger and Associates. Parks Director Paula McDevitt …

The community of Dale, Indiana, spoke up at an Indiana Department of Environmental Management hearing, last week. Spencer County community members voiced their concerns over a proposed coal-to-diesel plant by Riverview Energy.  The plant, if permitted, would be built outside of the small farming town of Dale.  Our thanks to WFHB Contributor Mia Beach, for gathering audio from the IDEM meeting. 

The Bloomington Police Department is dropping their investigation into vandalism at the Islamic Center of Bloomington; A northern Indiana college has won its long-running lawsuit, seeking a religious exemption from paying for employees’ birth control; Construction on Section 6 of Interstate 69 is expected to start next year; The newly-renovated Bloomington Animal Shelter opened to the public, earlier this week. …