You’re listening to Eco Report for Friday, February 2, 2024. Later in the program, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze gets a breakdown of some bills currently before the Indiana House and Senate in Part One of his conversation with Sam Carpenter, the new Executive Director of the Hoosier Environmental Council. And now for your environmental reports: To help Indiana schools celebrate …
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HEADLINES All Stories by Norm Holy A new study of more than 80 refineries raises serious concerns about the wastewater they are pumping into lakes and rivers across the U.S. One of those polluters is BP’s Whiting Refinery in northwest Indiana. A study found that textbooks’ coverage of climate change expanded from 1970 to 2019, but that the increase was …
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HEADLINES It’s obvious why Indiana is the target for new ventures that are very likely to pollute the air. They know that Indiana’s air-pollution laws are very weak. Politicians want new jobs no matter how polluting the industry. —Norm Holy Wind energy prices — particularly in the central United States, are key to selecting wind as the low-cost option, said …
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