HEADLINES All Stories by Norm Holy A new study of more than 80 refineries raises serious concerns about the wastewater they are pumping into lakes and rivers across the U.S. One of those polluters is BP’s Whiting Refinery in northwest Indiana. A study found that textbooks’ coverage of climate change expanded from 1970 to 2019, but that the increase was …
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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 Indiana lawmakers — sent a letter to Duke Energy urging the utility to make a …
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HEADLINES As the effects of the climate crisis ravage the West with severe drought and persistent wildfires, Indiana will become accustomed to more frequent bouts of severe weather. —Norm Holy The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is investigating reports of sick and dying songbirds in five Indiana counties. The agency said several species of songbirds in Monroe, Clark, Jefferson, LaGrange …
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According to the EPA and the U-S Government Accountability Office, two Bloomington Superfund sites, Bennett Stone Quarry and Neal’s Landfill, are vulnerable to flooding from climate change. —Linda Greene On a two-hundred-acre tract of farmland in northeast Saint Joseph County, Fort Wayne-based Indiana Michigan Power is installing a solar farm, which it says will be capable of producing 20,000 kilowatts …
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