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The Bloomington Police Department is dropping their investigation into vandalism at the Islamic Center of Bloomington; A northern Indiana college has won its long-running lawsuit, seeking a religious exemption from paying for employees’ birth control; Construction on Section 6 of Interstate 69 is expected to start next year; The newly-renovated Bloomington Animal Shelter opened to the public, earlier this week. …

The town of Spencer resisted being named a Superfund site by the EPA. According to EPA documents obtained by WFHB, Spencer officials pushed back on the EPA’s designation, due to fears that being named a Superfund site would negatively affect property values. The town’s aquifer was named a Superfund site by the EPA last month. Superfund sites are eligible for …

A new study from Indiana University’s Project Vector Shield reveals deer ticks are currently undergoing a population boom. WFHB’s Jonah Chester talks with the one of the project’s leaders, Dr. Keith Clay, about ticks from the dual perspectives of public health and the environment.

In today’s feature report, our environmental correspondent Norm Holy talks with Purdue University’s Jeffrey Dukes. Dr. Dukes is the Director of Purdue Climate Change Research Center, and leads a global network of climate researchers. Based on his team’s recent work, Dr. Dukes gives us an eye into the changes in weather patterns Hoosiers can expect in coming decades.

In this week’s run-down of ecological news Eco Report’s Linda and Glenn Lightner report on the bill called the Fair Agricultural Reporting Method Act, the relocation of the non-profit Uplands PEAK Sanctuary and the push from Environmentalists urging state governors to ban total release foggers, known popularly as bug bombs.  And more is this week’s episode of Eco Report. This week’s …

In this week’s episode of “Eco Report” WFHB’s David Lyman and Julianna Dailey report on Brown County Water Utilities federal lawsuit against the Nashville Town Council, the City of Bloomington’s December deer cull success in culling sixty-two deer from the Lake Griffy Nature Preserve and Indiana Attorney Curtis Hill’s multi-million-dollar agreement to address alleged violations of environmental regulations at an …

Eco Report’s Julianna Dailey and David Lyman report on President Trump’s elimination of a rule that enabled the government to criminally prosecute businesses for accidentally injuring and killing migratory birds. Also on a new study on converting completely to renewable electricity, how Several areas of wilderness have been targeted for exploitation, and more in this week’s episode of Eco Report. …

In today’s feature interview, Correspondent Norm Holy speaks with Patrick Brown about climate change. Patrick Brown is from the Carnegie Institute for Science at Stanford University.  Brown co-published a recent scientific article about climate change in Nature Magazine.

More than 200 scientists and academics presented a letter to Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb late last week objecting to the logging of the Yellowwood backcountry area. The letter was authored by Earlham College professor Leslie Bishop and was signed by 228 academics and scientists. The letter states that in 2002, more than 40 percent of Indiana’s State Forests were exempted …

This week, we speak with Lill, a resident of Whitesburg, Kentucky. Whitesburg is located in Letcher County the proposed home to a new federal prison to be built on a mountaintop removal site. We have previously covered the strong local organizing in Letcher County that had helped put a stop to this toxic proposal. In light of recent efforts by …