Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:08 — 44.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 30th, 2023. Later in the program, WFHB News continues its coverage on Lake Monroe – how healthy is it and how long will it survive? – on Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate. More in today’s feature report. Also …
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Deep Dive: Lake Monroe Watershed (Part 2)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:20 — 36.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate where we look into issues regarding Health, Housing, and the Environment that directly impact residents of Monroe County. We are looking into the Lake Monroe Watershed and the water quality. This week, we look into pollutants in the watershed. According …
Read More »Environmental Activism in Bloomington: The History of PCB Contamination
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:30 — 14.5MB)Subscribe: RSSEarly this summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved to declassify three PCB contamination Superfund sites in the surrounding Bloomington area. The decommission of these clean up sites from the National Priority List draws a decades long local environmental movement to a close. For those who were there to …
Read More »PCBs in Monroe County: When Will They Be Gone?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:02 — 5.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe state of Indiana has a bad reputation for pollution. It may lead some to wonder: Why? One of the largest reasons came from the man-made material called PCB, short for Polychlorinated Biphenyl. PCBs are made from 209 individual chlorinated compounds called congeners. They range from light …
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