WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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The Indiana Department of Transportation, or INDOT, is pushing its plan to build a destructive new highway, the Mid-States Corridor, which would run from Owensboro, Kentucky, through the Jasper area and connect with interstate 69. Whether the project is even needed at all—is a point of contention.
—Linda Greene
The head of Indiana’s environmental agency said it would no longer regulate ephemeral streams as part of its water quality certification, removing one of the only protections left in the state for the rain-dependent streams.
—Norm Holy
Houston-based EDP Renewables North America is committing $300,000 to support four White County communities near its Meadow Lake Wind Farm.
—Norm Holy
Years of resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline have included community rallies, several long-standing tree sits and blockades by activists, yet the company behind the pipeline, Equitrans, hasn’t given up trying to build it.
—Linda Greene
Lake trout were introduced into Yellowstone Lake sometime in the late nineteen eighties. The Lake Trout were probably from Jenny Lake in the Tetons. Since then their population has grown, and they prey on the native cutthroat trout. Their presence has resulted in the decimation of the cutthroat.
—Norm Holy
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a national historical park hosting a concentration of pueblos. Currently the U-S Bureau of Land Management is trying to bring 3100 new fracking wells to the Greater Chaco region, opening up nearly four million acres to drilling.
—Linda Greene
The Trump administration plans to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. The refuge happens to be the most densely populated area of denning mother polar bears and their cubs. There they could face a new threat: 45 ton so-called “thumper trucks” traveling over the frozen tundra in search of oil.
—Linda Greene
Ocean exploitation is on the rise. The COVID-19 pandemic has offered a convenient excuse for a decrease in monitoring, less law enforcement and few regulators on fishing boats. The result has been a dramatic increase in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
—Linda Greene
The Paris climate agreement seeks to limit global warming to one-point-five degrees Celsius this century. A new report by the World Meteorological Organization warns this limit may be exceeded as early as 2024.
—Norm Holy
Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than one million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, we need bold, life-changing initiatives, including a call for a $100B investment in endangered species and the creation of five hundred new national parks, wildlife refuges and marine sanctuaries.
—Norm Holy
