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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:35 — 28.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s Eco Report feature, part 2 of WFHB Environmental Correspondent Robert Shull’s conversation with Marcia Veldman, founder of the South Central Indiana chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby.   Last week we introduced you to the world of plastic. Today, we will educate you on the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:34 — 27.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s Eco Report feature we hear from Elisa Pokral, Community Outreach Coordinator of the newly rebranded Waste Reduction District of Monroe County, in Part Two of a conversation with Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze.  Today brings the conclusion of the story of fishing in the oceans. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.2MB) Subscribe: RSS | More HEADLINES The Indiana Environmental Reporter says a pair of Purdue University professors have been appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s newly reconstituted Scientific Advisory Board. —Norm Holy In a story originated by WFYI, city officials from Bloomington, Carmel, and West Lafayette — and other …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.8MB) Subscribe: RSS | More Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has weakened yet another safeguard against air pollution in the midst of a respiratory pandemic. The agency finalized a rollback of the Clinton-era “once in, always in” policy that required major polluters like industrial plants and refineries to maintain the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:56 — 9.0MB) Subscribe: RSS | More In this segment Kalynn Huffman Brower shares how to replace the scourge of polystyrene with myco-foam, the compostable alternative packing material made from mushrooms.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 66.4MB) Subscribe: RSS | More Listen to this week’s episode of Eco Report to hear a weekly update on important environmental news. For example in this week’s news a discussion on the total mass of insects worldwide falling by two percent a year and Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:08 — 26.7MB) 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 3.7MB) Subscribe: RSS | More Here are three new dangers involving your electric bill, buying-and-selling on Amazon, and filling up your gas tank with a piece of plastic.