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HEADLINES Indiana’s state insect is a lightning bug.  In 2018, after years of campaigning by Hoosier elementary students, the Indiana legislature and Gov. Eric Holcomb proclaimed the Say’s firefly as the state’s bug. Not only is this species of firefly native to Indiana, it also is named after a Hoosier who discovered it: Thomas Say. —Norm Holy The Republic in …

According to Inside Indiana Business, the parent company of Indianapolis Power and Light company has gotten into the electric vehicle industry, including the launch of an EV subscription service in Marion county. —Norm Holy A proposed solar project in Pulaski County has just been approved. The clean energy project, to be known as Mammoth Solar, will be designed to produce …

The Muncie Indiana Star Press reports that AquaBounty Technologies, a land-based salmon farming pioneer, has successfully commenced the commercial-scale harvest of conventional Atlantic salmon raised at its first farm in the United States. According to Alexis Baden-Mayer, of the Organic Consumers Association, in testimony presented to the Food and Drug Administration during hearings on the salmon, AquAdvantage salmon shouldn’t be …

The US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the company Energy Transfer to shutter and empty the Dakota Access Pipeline, the largest pipeline transporting oil from North Dakota to Midwest and Gulf Coast refineries. The court gave Energy Transfer thirty days to make the changes. Recently we reported that the long battle to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline …