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Deep Dive: Lake Monroe – How Healthy Is It and How Long Will It Survive? (Part I)

  In this week’s episode of Deep Dive on the WFHB Local News, we delve deep into Lake Monroe’s water quality. As the largest manmade lake in Indiana, Lake Monroe serves as a primary drinking water source for over 130,000 residents and a hub for recreational activities, generating millions in revenue annually.  Our guest, Maggie Sullivan, Watershed Coordinator for the …

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Eco Report EXTRA – April 14, 2023

In this week’s edition of Eco Report EXTRA, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze gets an update from the Indiana State House in a conversation with Tim Maloney, Senior Policy Director for the Hoosier Environmental Council (HEC) on bills moving through the Indiana Legislature that relate to the ecological health of our state. Maloney is the prime emissary of the HEC to …

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Indiana has a reputation for water pollution disasters.

A big reason for Indiana’s pollution is coal. Coal has shown to be a very dirty and detrimental fossil fuel for the environment, one of the main causes to climate change. Coal ash is the product of burning coal for electricity use. The waste product contains toxic chemicals such as arsenic, lead, mercury and selenium. Indiana currently has the largest …

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Eco Report – May 21, 2020

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Two southwestern Indiana environmental health advocacy groups have received a significant grant to undertake regional monitoring of toxic and fine particle air pollution as well as some water pollution. Over forty-three billion dollars in low-interest loans earmarked for clean energy projects sit undistributed by the Trump administration, according to The New York Times. The U.S. solar sector has lost sixty-five …

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