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Hello 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 your environmental reports: The Indiana Capital Chronicle lists some of the …

HEADLINES 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. —Norm Holy The New York Times reports America’s greenhouse gas emissions from energy …

According 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 a solar farm, which it says will be capable of producing 20,000 kilowatts …

One 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 trees belonging to a species that dates back to the time of the …