Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:09 — 27.7MB)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 a conversation with Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze. They discuss the District’s new name, their operations, services, programs and events happening this spring. Planting …
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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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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:47 — 20.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMinnesota recently became the first state in the union to ban TCE, short for trichloroethylene, a volatile organic compound that’s used to manufacture refrigerant chemicals and is also used as a solvent for degreasing and as a spot cleaner in dry cleaning. It’s also in several common …
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