HEADLINES The Observer, the student newspaper at Notre Dame, reports the university has pledged to become a carbon-neutral campus by 2050, University President Friar John Jenkins announced last Friday. —Norm Holy IndyStar reports that an Indiana University scientist will lead an ambitious effort to determine the effect toxic chemicals have on an indigenous community in Alaska — research that might …
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A group of Martinsville, Indiana, residents and business owners called a community action group is seeking to persuade others to allow federal officials to test the air in houses, apartment buildings and businesses that might be contaminated with the toxic chemicals tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene from a Superfund site that was formerly a dry-cleaning business. —Linda Greene WFYI reports that Indiana …
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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 highest possible levels of pollution controls as long as they continued to operate, Reuters reported. …
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