Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:05 — 3.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Indianapolis Power and Light Company (IPL) announced on December 9th that they would be shutting down two of their biggest units at the Petersburg Super Polluter coal plant. Their plan is to have both units completely retired by 2023. WFHB Correspondent Katrine Bruner reports the company …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:29 — 7.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBy Sarah Vaughan A carbon fee and dividend policy proposed by Citizens’ Climate Lobby could be a game changer for the environment, according to CCL volunteer lobbyists Robert Meitus and Richard Durisen. They believe an issue as large as climate change requires a large, collectively driven solution. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:22 — 38.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week we share two presentations from the recent Fight Toxic Prisons convergence. Held this past month in Gainesville, Florida, Fight Toxic Prisons is in its fourth year of an annual conferences that focus on the intersection of mass incarceration and the environment. Our first segment features …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 66.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreListen to this week’s episode of Eco Report to hear a weekly update on important environmental news. In this week’s news headlines WFHB’s Graham Capito report on Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt expecting to lobby for the coal industry and against coal plant closures across …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 66.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreListen to this week’s episode of Eco Report to hear a weekly update on important environmental news. For example in this week’s news a discussion on the total mass of insects worldwide falling by two percent a year and Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to ban single …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 66.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s episode of Eco Report, WFHB’s Julie Thomas and Julianna Daily report on human overpopulation is threatening iconic animals in the Masai Mara and Serengeti and the Bloomington city council’s update on the Unified Development Ordinance during their meeting, last week. Also in this week’s …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 66.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this weeks episode of Ecoreport, WFHB’s Don Geyra and Tod Wicks report on the Indiana Department of Natural Resources is carrying out prescribed burns in Morgan-Monroe and Yellowwood State Forest over the course of next month and the Brown County Parks and Recreation Department selling woods …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 66.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 66.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s radio rundown of ecological news WFHB’s Todd Wicks and Julianna Dailey report on Bloomington’s Maple Heights neighborhood being the subject of a fight over urbanization and gentrification, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro transferring responsibility for indigenous lands to the Department of Agriculture and the prairie restoration project,Kankakee …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 66.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s radio rundown of ecological news, WFHB’s Don Geyra and Tod Wicks report on a recent report by the union of Concerned Scientists stating that at least seven million Americans living near military sites could be exposed to unsafe levels of P-F-A-S, due to the …
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