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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:33 — 3.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Monroe County Community School Corporation Board of Trustees recommended on the Tuesday meeting that they should join a multidistrict lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit has already gained traction, involving nearly 100 school districts over the past couple of years. It was first filed in California …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:50 — 2.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast month was officially the hottest November our planet has seen. As a direct result of climate change, this decade we are about to leave, 2011-2020, will be known as the warmest decade in history, according to the World Meteorological Organization. So what were the key events …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:07 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA big reason for Indiana’s pollution is coal. Coal has shown to be a very dirty and detrimental fossil fuel for the environment, one of the main causes to climate change. Coal ash is the product of burning coal for electricity use. The waste product contains toxic …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:48 — 4.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Trump Administration announced the United States’ official withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement on Monday with a letter sent to the United Nations. This took place on Wednesday, the day after millions of Americans voted for the best fit representative to lead the country.  Trump has …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:58 — 4.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis post was edited on October 17, 2020 for accuracy. Some facts/pronunciations in the original recording may be incorrect and differ from the text. State of Nature: Picturing Indiana Biodiversity, was created and put together by the Director of Grunwald Gallery, Elizabeth “Betsy” Stirratt, along with the help …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:13 — 7.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | More  Hours after the lawsuit was filed, IPL announced their compliance with EPA’s allegations and said that they would reduce their emissions at the Petersburg plant. Following this, EPA announced that Morgan County’s air quality is officially within federal standards. The lawsuit has sparked interest on how …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:49 — 4.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreText in this post was edited for clarity on August 24th. I spoke with founder of Yellowwood Youth, Josie Sparks, who will be a high school senior this year and has spent the past year working endlessly to get to this point.  Yellowwood Youth was a result …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:05 — 4.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe press conference included around 4,500 educators and education staff from Indiana with the purpose of calling schools to only begin in-person schooling if it is safe to do so, with the right protocols and safety measures for keeping covid cases under control. Indiana governor Eric Holcomb …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (11.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | More    This story was edited for clarity on August 10th. According to court documents from last year, the charge asked that the court “mandates the Huffs to immediately restore and stabilize the land and vegetation they disturbed or removed, or caused to be disturbed or removed from portions of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:42 — 3.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | More On July 6th, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg issued a ruling requesting that the 1,172 mile long Dakota Access pipeline shut down for further environmental review by the Army Corps of Engineers. In 2016, both natives and non-natives set up camp to protest against the …