Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:36 — 5.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA groundwater plume contaminated with the chlorinated solvent tetrachloroethene, or PCE, has led the EPA to designate the city of Spencer’s municipal well field – which provides water to approximately 9,900 residents- a Superfund Site. The water is blended and treated before distribution to residents. According to …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:07 — 22.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana’s Department of Natural Resources withdrew two controversial rule changes, which would have created a bobcat hunting season and would have required state-approved animal control workers to euthanize captured raccoons, coyotes and opossums; The General Assembly approved an oversight committee yesterday, to investigate issues plaguing Indiana’s Department …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:07 — 5.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMonroe and Brown county have some of the best air quality in the country, according to the American Lung Association. A study out from the ALA looks at ozone and particulate matter in counties across the country. As WFHB correspondent Chuhan Jie reports, the study found that …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:59 — 5.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Environmental Protection Agency is hearing testimony from environmental advocates in D.C. today, ahead of a proposed rule change in coal ash pond regulations. Coal ash from power plants is often kept in ponds or lagoons near waterways. When coal is burned several heavy metals, including arsenic …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:14 — 18.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFood Truck Fridays are coming to Ellettsville; In other Ellettsville news, the town Council is taking preliminary steps to acquire land for a second entrance for a planned subdivision; In their meeting last week, the Bloomington Board of Zoning Appeals denied a variance request for parking that …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:50 — 3.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA new report shows groundwater across the state is being contaminated by unsafe amounts of toxic heavy metals from coal ash. The residue left over from coal-fired power plants, coal ash is either stored in large watery ponds or lagoons, or shipped away and buried. The Hoosier …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:19 — 25.9MB)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 …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:09 — 16.6MB)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 …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:30 — 3.2MB)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 …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:49 — 7.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn today’s Eco Report two part feature, editor Aaron Comforty spoke with Panagioti Tsolkas, an organizer with Sabal Trail Resistance.
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