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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:23 — 69.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s feature report, we hear an interview by Janek Schaller with Lindsey Levine, who is with Sycamore Land Trust, and David VanGilden, with the Hoosier Environmental Council, about the Kirtland’s snake. The New York Times reports a feel-good story about a very old whale. How …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:06 — 86.7MB)Subscribe: RSSEco Report Correspondent Zyro Roze talks with Kelly Conaway of Drift Botanicals, a green business specializing in a new model; reusable, refillable glass bottles of natural cleaners with an emphasis on safe, organic ingredients and local production. They explore the reasons for avoiding conventional cleaners, including plastic pollution, health hazards and water …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 22.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA British Petroleum refinery in northwest Indiana repeatedly violated air pollution standards for soot emissions between 2015 and 2018, a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit brought by environmental advocates, as reported by the Associated Press. —Norm Holy Indiana Public Radio reports that one of Indiana’s largest …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe future of the northern white rhino is looking bleak. Only two are left in the world—both are female. But scientists have a costly plan to save them from extinction. The plastics industry is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to reverse progress on eliminating single-use plastics. The industry …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 66.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreListen to this week’s episode of Eco Report to hear a weekly update on important environmental news. In this week’s news headlines WFHB’s Graham Capito report on Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt expecting to lobby for the coal industry and against coal plant closures across …