Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:54 — 27.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAs the Vernal Equinox approaches and folks begin to clear clutter and refresh their homes, Eco Report correspondent Zyro Roze asks Kelly Conaway, proprietor of Drift Botanicals about her reasons for starting a green cleaning company and what tips she might give for nontoxic, environmentally responsible options …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES IndyStar reports that every year when the list of new bills for the Indiana legislative session posts, Hoosiers may feel dizzy with deja vu. —Norm Holy The House Environmental Affairs Committee: 200 W. Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN 46204. You are encouraged to write to them expressing …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:46 — 26.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES All stories this week by Norm Holy Indiana is often where out-of-state corporations propose to put highly polluting processes. WFYI reports a company that wants to build a coal-to-diesel plant in southern Indiana has hit a roadblock. Flexsteel Industries Inc. has agreed to a consent decree …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 21.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES Two Indiana groups have joined a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to protect people and the environment from toxic coal ash in landfills that are no longer being used. —Norm Holy The herbicide atrazine is making frogs croak — and not in a …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 23.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES Some Northern Indiana residents remain skeptical that communities in the area will be free of contamination from toxic coal ash despite a renewed commitment by government agencies and one of the state’s biggest energy companies to clean up polluted sites and transition to renewable energy sources. …
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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 …
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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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:22 — 3.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA report from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz regarding plans to dispose of toxic coal ash waiting in a sensitive landfill in Northern Indiana.
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:44 — 4.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEarlier this month, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved to loosen a 2015 regulation regarding coal ash disposal. According to the Associated Press, some of the rule changes would push back the deadline to close problematic ash dumps. Other changes weaken drinking water protections by removing …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:47 — 17.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | More369 Indiana schools — and 94% of the state’s public schools — are requesting hand-held metal detectors for the coming school year; Researchers at Indiana University have developed a new tool to help first-responders determine when and where a landslide may strike; City of Bloomington Utilities Director …
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