Government

Businesses, Local Governments Warn of Hidden Costs of Cleaning Up PFAS Contamination

Proposed hazardous substance designation would reduce “forever chemical” contamination threat, but industries warn of domino effect due to high cost of cleanup.
Climate & Energy

Coal Ash Ponds in Indiana Threatening State Waterways, Hoosier Health: Report

Report finds companies reported cancer-causing metals and other pollutants near groundwater in at least 16 coal ash impoundments throughout the state.
On Air with IER

On Air with IER: Episode 118

This week: A company pays $9.8 million to settle claims it was responsible for pollution leading to an Elkhart Superfund site, and a new report finds there may be a lot more PFAS contamination around the country than we think.
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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.

Indianapolis City-County Council's Environmental Sustainability Committee shows support for carbon credit resolution

Bloomington gas station ordered to assess extent of underground fuel leak

Toxic cooking fumes likely cause of complications in some pregnant women

Low levels or particulate matter pollution deadlier than previously thought

Lifetime suspension from hunting is first of its kind in Indiana

Oliver’s Woods Nature Preserve visitors can share photos for time lapse project

Wastewater Treatment Plants Can ‘Catch Colds’

Indiana Public Schools awarded federal funding for electric school buses

Hearing bird calls linked to lasting mental health benefits

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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

In the Water section 18

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

In the Water section 16

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

GAO: ‘No Assurance Small Refinery Exemptions Made with Valid Information’

Oil-friendly exemption allows small refineries claiming economic hardships to skip rule obligating them to add biofuels to gasoline and diesel.
Government

Flexsteel Settles, Ends Decades-long Legal Dispute Over Elkhart Contaminated Groundwater Site

$9.8 million settlement to pay for past and future cleanup of TCE at former RV seat-assembly facility.
Government

IDEM Investigating Release of Gasoline into Bloomington Sewers

Gas station has previous violations.

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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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