Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:26 — 69.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | More In this edition of Eco Report, Kade Young and Noelle Herhusky-Schneider continue their conversation with Maggie Sullivan, the Watershed Coordinator for the Friends of Lake Monroe, discussing the history of the lake and its crucial role in the Bloomington water supply. Eight percent of Indiana’s corn …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 26.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES All Stories by Norm Holy With the legislature in session, there are many bills that will impact the quality of life in Indiana. Will the legislature address real problems, or will special interests dominate again this year? A nationwide comparison of electric utility performance by an …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 21.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES WFIU reported the northern Indiana utility NIPSCO wants to raise rates to clean up coal ash ponds at its Michigan City coal plant. Other utilities in the state may be following suit. Activists say NIPSCO’s customers shouldn’t have to pay for what they call an “incomplete” …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES The Indiana Department of Health has adopted an emergency rule increasing what it considers elevated levels of the neurotoxin lead in children’s blood and has initiated family education and case management for children with lead in their blood. —Linda Greene WTIU reports that Indiana households have …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:56 — 22.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES Two IU groups, Concerned Scientists at IU and Advocates for Science, recently sent a letter to the university administrators asking the university to analyze how it affects the climate, to commit to becoming carbon neutral by a specific date, and to create a climate task force …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 23.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES According to the Louisville Courier Journal, the Biden administration is making its first significant move toward corralling lingering and widespread problems with toxic ash from coal-fired power plants, one of the nation’s most prominent environmental health legacies from more than a century of coal-fired electricity generation. …
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