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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, January 4th, 2021. This week, we will take a look back at the stories we covered in the year 2021. In today’s episode, you will hear WFHB Correspondent Aaron Comforty report on a company that focuses on using artificial intelligence and drone technology to construct environmentally sound buildings out of natural materials. …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, January 3rd, 2021. This week, we will take a look back at the stories we covered in the year 2021. In today’s episode, we will review the second part of environmental stories from this past year. You will hear Nathaniel Weinzapfel speak with an IU researcher on drylands, Kade Young covers lead …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, December 27th, 2021. Over the next two weeks, we will take a look back at the stories we covered in the year 2021. In today’s episode, we will review local environmental stories from the last year. You will hear Sophie Hall report on Duke Energy’s investment into solar, Brianna Devin provide a …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday December 22nd, 2021. Later in the program, Covid-19 cases are on the rise across the state as Indiana reported its first positive case involving the Omicron variant. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Log4J Mess on Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog segment on WFHB. But first, your Environmental …

By Nathaniel Weinzapfel “When the people rise up, the power comes down,” chant demonstrators at a recent protest from the nation-wide climate change organization called the Sunrise Movement. Launched in 2017, the Sunrise Movement was founded to, “shift the Overton window on climate policy” and promote strong environmental policies such as the Green New Deal. The movement organizes multiple protests …

The opposition was strong. Over 110 organizations and individuals signed and delivered a letter to the Governor’s office requesting a veto. The signers represented all parts of Indiana and multiple forms of environmental organizations. However, despite the unprecedented amount of opposition, on April 29th, Governor Eric Holcomb signed Senate Bill 389, which reduces the amount of wetlands in the state …

Early this summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved to declassify three PCB contamination Superfund sites in the surrounding Bloomington area. The decommission of these clean up sites from the National Priority List draws a decades long local environmental movement to a close. For those who were there to witness the contamination and resulting fights for public health and environmental …

Hoosiers ages 50 and older are currently eligible to sign up and receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Hoosiers who are first responders or healthcare workers still qualify to sign up for the vaccine, as well. If you qualify, you can sign up online by visiting ourshot.in.gov, over the phone by calling 2-1-1 for assistance, or by contacting one of Indiana’s Area …

More than three years after the epic pipeline began pumping crude oil across the country, Boasberg has stated, “given the seriousness of the Corps’ NEPA error, the impossibility of a simple fix, and the fact that Dakota Access did assume much of its economic risk knowingly, and the potential harm each day the pipeline operates, the Court is forced to …

Republican Senator Rick Niemeyer authored senate bill 248 for annual inspections of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFO’s. This bill would require state mandated, onsite, annual inspections by the Indiana environmental management agency. Inspections would be performed in large, medium and small CAFO facilities. The Senate Bill defines a large CAFO as “at which more than 1,000 head of beef …