HEADLINES All Stories by Norm Holy With the legislature in session, there are many bills that will impact the quality of life in Indiana. Will the legislature address real problems, or will special interests dominate again this year? A nationwide comparison of electric utility performance by an Illinois consumer advocacy group found that customers in states that are heavily reliant …
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HEADLINES The lead story in the December 18 Herald-Times is headlined as “Cleaner energy options”. The story is about Salesforce, Roche, and Cummins, all calling for more availability of green energy. Maybe they can exert some sway on the legislature, even though that seems very unlikely. —Norm Holy The Indiana Natural Resources Commission (NRC) has approved the dedication of Sycamore …
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HEADLINES KPVI reports that Governor Eric Holcomb has appointed a top employee at the state’s environmental oversight agency to serve as its new leader. Brian Rockensuess began his tenure as commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management on Dec. 13. —Norm Holy Southern Indiana has recently expressed the view that they don’t like solar installation anywhere close to towns. …
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In this episode of Interchange we welcome back Holly Buck whose new book is Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough, published by Verso. And as we did in our previous show with Buck, which was called “Capturing the Carbon Imaginary,” we’ll feature music from Polish jazz pianist and composer Krzysztof Komeda. Komeda was born in 1931, the …
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In this week’s radio rundown of ecological news, WFHB’s Glenn and Linda Lightner report on The Habitat Network, an online resource housed at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology which is coming to an end on January 31 ,2019. Also in this week’s news stories three North Atlantic right whale calves have been born so far this calving season unlike last year where …
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