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71. On Air with IER: Episode 50 (17:58)

Date:
2020-01-27
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: The Trump administration has finalized a rule that limits which waterways are under federal Clean Water Act protections, and we look into whether Indiana's 2019 agricultural fortunes are a sign of things to come.

72. On Air with IER: Episode 51 (19:48)

Date:
2020-02-03
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: Indiana's youth climate leaders call for change in state's first Youth Climate Action Day, and we hear from opponents and proponents of a bill making its way through the Indiana legislature that seeks to slow down the retirement of coal-fired power plants.

73. On Air with IER: Episode 52 (20:11)

Date:
2020-02-10
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: A coalition of groups from the Great Lakes region say its members need more time to see how a change to one of the nation's first major federal environmental laws will affect them, and a new report says snowfall rates have drastically changed in the past 50 years.

74. On Air with IER: Episode 53 (19:37)

Date:
2020-02-24
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: A U.S. company decides to stop selling an Indiana-made pesticide linked to "brain abnormalities" in children; we look at who won the first stage of a legal battle to prevent the construction of a coal-to-diesel plant in Spencer County; and students learn about using aquatic life to grow food.

75. On Air with IER: Episode 54 (19:57)

Date:
2020-03-02
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: A bipartisan bill making its way through the Indiana legislature seeks to limit the amount of PFAS firefighting foam used during training, and Congress grills the EPA administrator about the Trump administration's request to slash the agency's budget by 26%.

76. On Air with IER: Episode 55 (18:45)

Date:
2020-03-09
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: Two Indiana-based companies are in charge of destroying the DoD's PFAS firefighting foam, and Congress takes a crack at the nation's plastic waste crisis.

77. On Air with IER: Episode 56 (16:20)

Date:
2020-03-30
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: The NOAA predicts above-average levels of rainfall and flood risk this spring, the Department of Defense it has identified many more military installations in the U.S. that may be contaminated with toxic PFAS chemicals.

78. On Air with IER: Episode 57 (18:13)

Date:
2020-04-06
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: Farmers face off against precipitation and pestilence to feed the country, and climate and medical professionals say there's a direct link between human health and the health of the environment.

79. On Air with IER: Episode 58 (15:50)

Date:
2020-04-13
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: Both the U.S. EPA and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management have adopted "enforcement discretion" policies that will allow some forms of environmental regulation noncompliance during the COVID-19 crisis, and a new study has found that people living in communities with more air pollution have a higher COVID-19 death rate than people living in less polluted communities.

80. On Air with IER: Episode 59 (24:19)

Date:
2020-04-20
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: Fallout from the COVID-19 crisis has dealt a serious economic blow to the clean energy industry. Plus, the combination of EPA's full-speed-ahead deregulation and COVID-19 "enforcement discretion" policy could put Hoosiers living near coal ash dump sites at risk.