Climate & Energy

Solar Power Could Make Up 40% of Nation’s Electricity Supply, But Will Indiana Take Part?

On Air with IER

On Air with IER: Episode 94

On a new and improved On Air with IER: Tell City residents say a former General Electric plant is a risk to human health and property values; a proposed natural gas pipeline could impact plants and wildlife in southern Indiana; and South Bend renegotiates a deal to save hundreds of millions of dollars and protect water quality.
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People

Living Richly and Buying Locally in Paoli

Bird's-Eye View

Every day, people across the world will make decisions or innovations that affect the way Hoosiers live. We’ll track the changes so you’re ready for them.

Indiana University professor leads NASA-funded research on carbon cycling

WHO announces stricter guidelines for air pollutants

Governor appoints members of Indiana Wetlands Task Force

Purdue’s record-breaking white paint could reduce need for air conditioning

Governor signs Pollution Prevention Week proclamation

Public invited to Lake Monroe watershed tour

Indiana rural communities receive grant funding for water infrastructure improvements and blighted properties

Hoosiers can resume feeding birds

Indiana groups want more access, transparency during Duke Energy planning process

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In The Water

In the Water follows the complex discussions around Indiana’s most traditional energy source. It speaks to everyone from the miners who dig coal from the ground, to environmental activists fighting for coal ash disposal legislation and clean water, to residents whose health has been affected by coal ash pollution.

In The Water

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After twenty years there are still residents who aren’t connected to municipal water and receive bottled water from NIPSCO.
In The Water

In the Water section 17

The Trump EPA proposed several amendments that were meant to significantly weaken the 2015 Federal Coal Ash Law.
In The Water

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The cost of using coal to generate electricity is no longer the lowest cost option in many cases.
Climate & Energy

Power Companies, Cities, Advocacy Groups Negotiate Agreement to Shutter Rockport “Super Polluter” Plant

People

A Summer of Activism

Government

US Steel to Pay Penalty, Reimbursement Costs for 2017 Portage Plant Chromium Spill

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By the Numbers

$8.6 million

Money spent by Indiana landowners and land managers annually to manage invasive species in Indiana.

5000

Beekeepers in the state of Indiana

13

Number of ethanol plants in Indiana

100%

Percent of Indiana's disaster relief fund financed by firework sales.

80%

of Hoosiers believe climate change is happening

200MIL

at risk for flooding this spring in the U.S.

With sound science as our base, we present environmental issues in a nonpolitical way. We seek to make science and environmental information available to and useful to all Hoosiers.

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