Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:41 — 40.8MB)Subscribe: RSSLater in the program, Janek Schaller talks with Clarence Boone, the Coordinator of the Bloomington City Farmers Markets, and Indiana legislators about the connection between local farmers and the community and the future of agriculture. And now for your environmental reports: According to the New York Times, advances are …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:40 — 43.5MB)Subscribe: RSSHello and welcome to Eco Report. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondents Noelle Herhusky-Schneider and Kade Young look into how the Charles C. Deam Wilderness was established, in light of recent legislation introduced by Senator Mike Braun which would expand the boundaries of the wilderness area. And now for …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 23.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES According to the Louisville Courier Journal, the Biden administration is making its first significant move toward corralling lingering and widespread problems with toxic ash from coal-fired power plants, one of the nation’s most prominent environmental health legacies from more than a century of coal-fired electricity generation. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAccording to the EPA and the U-S Government Accountability Office, two Bloomington Superfund sites, Bennett Stone Quarry and Neal’s Landfill, are vulnerable to flooding from climate change. —Linda Greene On a two-hundred-acre tract of farmland in northeast Saint Joseph County, Fort Wayne-based Indiana Michigan Power is installing …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 28.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOne barrier to people making the switch from conventional to electric cars is cost, mainly because batteries are still expensive. But Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, senior economist at the University of Michigan Energy Institute, says that’s changing. Firefighters in Australia have succeeded in saving a secret grove of prehistoric …
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