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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:18 — 12.8MB)Subscribe: RSSThe 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:30 — 14.5MB)Subscribe: RSSEarly 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 …

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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:01 — 3.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMore 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:13 — 2.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreRepublican 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:09 — 7.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis weeks Eco Feature we re-air one of our favorite features from twenty-seventeen. Eco Report Correspondent Norm Holy speaks with Indiana Forest Alliance Conservation Director Rae Schnapp about the environmental impact of logging Yellowwood State Forest.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:11 — 29.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEco Report is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take …