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Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For W-F-H-B, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Cynthia Roberts. Later in the program, we conclude with Part Four of a series by Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze from an interview with Bill Brown of the Environmental Resilience Institute or E-R-I of Indiana University on how E-R-I assists institutions, communities, organizations, businesses and governmental entities to plan …

HEADLINES All Stories By Norm Holy WFYI reports that the new executive director for the Hoosier Environmental Council hopes to tackle some big issues in his new role. Sam Carpenter said Indiana has several areas of concern when it comes to the environment. Since its accidental introduction near Detroit, Michigan, in the mid-1990s, emerald ash borer (EAB) has rapidly spread …

HEADLINES Two environmental groups are putting real-time air monitoring data in the hands of citizens and giving those community members the power to make informed decisions about their health each day. —Norm Holy After losing an Indiana Court of Appeals decision, opponents of the proposed Lone Oak solar farm are asking the Indiana Supreme Court to review their case against …

HEADLINES While intense heat waves and wildfires scorch the Western U.S. and freak rainstorms spawn massive floods in Europe and China, the weather in central Indiana has been fairly tame so far this year. —Norm Holy As the country decides how hard it wants to fight climate change, Midwestern states have become battlegrounds for the nation’s energy future, according to …

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 …

The Australian Supreme Court has stepped in to put an immediate halt to a logging project in east Victoria while it waits for cases about the health of native species to be heard in court. If you look at the Nobel Prize website page, Svante August Arrhenius was born in 1859, the son of Svante Gustaf Arrhenius and Carolina Christina …