Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSHello and welcome to Eco Report. Today on the program, we have award winning screenwriter Angelo Pizzo, whose film ‘Hoosiers’, about a small town basketball team winning the Indiana state championship, has been honored as the best sports film of all time. He speaks with us today about preserving …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, February 22nd, 2024. Later in the program, Dark Past, Bright Future – a segment produced by Bring It On’s Liz Mitchell featuring accounts of Black history that often go overlooked. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 21.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES KPVI reports that Governor Eric Holcomb has appointed a top employee at the state’s environmental oversight agency to serve as its new leader. Brian Rockensuess began his tenure as commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management on Dec. 13. —Norm Holy Southern Indiana has recently …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:36 — 16.0MB)Subscribe: RSSOn Friday, the Bloomington Fire Department conducted a prescribed burning of a home at 1213 South High Street as a training exercise. Matt Murphy, owner of Foursquare Construction and local landlord who lives in the area, says he felt a burning in his throat as he smelled what he …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 21.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has given the green light to AES Indiana to acquire the 195-Megawatt Hardy Hills solar project in Clinton County. —Norm Holy The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is accepting comments on a proposed wetland permit drafted after state lawmakers removed protections …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:35 — 3.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Utilities Board approved a $161,000 amendment to its contract with VET Environmental Engineering for cleanup of the Griffy Lake water treatment plant. It is the fifth amendment to the VET contract for mercury clean up at the decommissioned plant. James Hall, Assistant Director of Environmental Programs …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:11 — 135.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | More The community of Dale, Indiana, spoke up at an Indiana Department of Environmental Management hearing, last week. Spencer County community members voiced their concerns over a proposed coal-to-diesel plant by Riverview Energy. The plant, if permitted, would be built outside of the small farming town of Dale. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:03 — 3.6MB) Subscribe: RSS | More The volunteer organization Friends of Lake Monroe is working to develop a watershed management plan for the lake. Dr. Sherry Mitchell-Bruker is president of Friends of Lake Monroe. She appealed to the Bloomington City Council last week, for support for a grant from the Indiana …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:22 — 5.5MB) Subscribe: RSS | More The town of Spencer resisted being named a Superfund site by the EPA. According to EPA documents obtained by WFHB, Spencer officials pushed back on the EPA’s designation, due to fears that being named a Superfund site would negatively affect property values. The town’s aquifer …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:45 — 25.4MB) Subscribe: RSS | More Eco 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 …
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