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This week: We take a look at a bill that seeks to clamp down on the few remaining state protections for wetlands and the powerful building lobby behind it.
This week: Indiana joins a legal challenge against the Biden administration's expansion of federal protection for waterways, and Peru, Indiana residents brace for the results of an investigation in...
This week: We take a look at a pair of energy bills making their way through the Indiana General Assembly and one bill that seeks to make the state public retirement system another front in the rig...
This week: The definition of an ambiguous phrase determines which waterways are protected by the Clean Water Act. We take a look at the Biden administration's new-ish definition of "waters of the U...
This week: Indiana's attorney general continues targeting investment companies seeking net-zero emissions, and one of the nation's largest steel mills pursues funding for a carbon capture and seque...
This week: The EPA proposes raising biofuel quotas in fossil fuels and electric vehicles, and businesses and local governments warn of the hidden costs of cleaning up PFAS contamination.
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 arou...
This week: The Indiana Wetlands Task Force that was established as state lawmakers eliminated state protections for half of the state's remaining wetlands has released its final report, and Indiana...
This week: New research finds kids could be breathing in toxic PFAS chemicals found in stain-proof school uniforms, and the Department of Energy finds 80% of active and retired coal-fired power pla...
This week: Another year, another record high for greenhouse gases. We'll take a look at what that means for Indiana. Plus, Indiana’s attorney general gets the state involved in the fossil fuel indu...
This week: The EPA is beginning to crack down on two of the most well-known toxic PFAS chemicals, PFOA and PFOS, and Indiana researchers are working to better understand the thousands of other unre...
This week: After a fossil fuel-friendly member of the President's own party derailed the latest effort to pass legislation to combat the crisis climate, some Americans want President Biden to use t...
This week: In a decision that could have significant implications for Indiana, the U.S. Supreme Court limits the EPA's power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, and the U.S. Food and Drug Adminis...
This week: The EPA's budget struggles claim a pair of Indiana air sensors, a group of PFAS firefighting foam makers will need to test their products for health effects, and Indiana's attorney gener...
This week: A federal court blocked a multi state effort aided by Indiana’s attorney general to help oil companies gain an advantage in a major climate change lawsuit, and the EPA lays out its plan ...
This week: One of the state's leading research universities is looking into powering campus with a nuclear reactor, and we'll take a look at how new guidance requiring American-made steel for infra...
This week: Two towns in northwest Indiana make a deal after dumping tens of thousands of gallons of raw sewage water into waterways for more than 10 years, and one of the state’s top financing offi...
This week: A new report finds Indiana's waterways are too polluted to play in, and Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb vetoes a bill trying to stymie important regulations.
This week: A federal watchdog says the EPA needs to do more to make sure chemical facilities can withstand climate change effects, and a major new study finds more evidence that discriminatory hous...
This week: A new report finds the world is running out of time to prevent the worst effects of climate change, and a bill that would only allow state agencies in Indiana to enforce the bare minimum...
This week: Indiana lawmakers consider a pair of bills setting the foundation for the state's post-coal energy future, and U.S. senators try to stop governors from considering climate change during ...
This week: State lawmakers are on the verge of making an Ice Age mammal the state fossil, but is it "Indiana" enough? We take a look at their proposed animal, plus some other surprising Indiana-rel...
This week: Indiana lawmakers introduce legislation that would prevent state agencies from doing more than the federal government to protect human health and the environment and prevent the state fr...
This week: We take a look at how a bill setting up a drainage task force could end up stripping away Indiana's few remaining wetland protections and why legislators are pushing bills to support car...
This week: State PFAS testing finds "forever chemicals" in treated water in two community water systems, and a federal report finds state air compliance monitoring dipped by 28% during the early mo...
This week: A Purdue University project will test how the Midwest can update its agricultural system for the 21st century, and the U.S. EPA lays out its strategy for tackling PFAS chemicals.
This week: The Indiana Wetlands Task Force is assembled; one of the state's "super polluter" power plants could soon have an official retirement date; and we take a look at whether Indiana lawmaker...
This week: After a recent court ruling, the state of Indiana has to figure out which state waterways are still state waterways; a major steel company has to pay for a 2017 chromium spill; and an or...
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...
On a new and improved On Air with IER: A natural gas pipeline to nowhere (for now) could affect Hoosier health and the environment in southwestern Indiana; Indiana's Congressional Republicans say "...
This week: A large majority of Hoosiers said 2020 was a difficult year and expect the next decade to be just as difficult, and an association of Midwestern companies and trade groups are against a ...
This week: The Biden administration intends to revise which waterways are protected by federal law, and Indiana's attorney general wants the Supreme Court to review the EPA's power to regulate elec...
This week: IDEM Commissioner Bruno Pigott speaks about the "pretty tough" 2021 Indiana Legislative Session, groups want a planned I-69 bridge between Kentucky and Indiana to have pedestrian and cyc...
This week: President Biden pledges a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and Gov. Eric Holcomb will have to decide whether or not to sign into law a bill that eliminates protections ...
This week: House committees make major changes to two environmental bills in the Indiana Legislature, making a wetlands bill more palatable and a carbon market bill less so.
This week: An Indiana University professor nominated for the EPA's number two position faces the Senate; Indiana's energy grid operator says it will take "transformational change" to introduce more...
This week, we take a look at several environmental bills making their way through the Indiana legislature. One bill seeks to remove all state protections for state wetlands. Another bill wants to m...
This week: A federal court has struck down a key Trump administration air pollution rule that the EPA said could cause more air pollution and premature deaths, and South Bend's Mayor Pete is now No...
This week: With only days left before the transition, the Trump EPA finalized a rule that restricts which data can be used to craft environmental legislation, and we take a look at President-elect ...
This week: The Office of the Indiana State Chemist is considering some state-specific restrictions on dicamba, and climate activists discuss what steps President-elect Biden should take to combat c...
This week: A new EPA proposal seeks to stop air pollution from upwind states like Indiana from crossing into downwind states and contributing to their pollution, and a federal judge ordered the FDA...
This week: The EPA approved the registration of three dicamba products, despite previous federal court decisions invalidating earlier registrations and a growing number of complaints about the prod...
This week: The EPA has removed all or parts of 27 Superfund sites, including three Indiana sites, from the National Priorities List. Is the contamination threat at those sites really gone? Plus, an...
This week: The COVID-19 crisis is making more Hoosiers energy insecure, and Indiana lawmakers discuss a draft bill that could set the foundation for carbon offset trading in the state.
This week: The new owners of several steel mills in Indiana promise a "greener and more socially responsible" future for the facilities, Gov. Eric Holcomb awards six environmental excellence awards...
This week: IDEM closes the door on ephemeral streams protection in Indiana, and COVID-19 slows the military's transition to a PFAS-free firefighting foam.
This week: EPA's Region 5 is refuting a new report by the EPA's Office of the Inspector General that may have found major record keeping issues, Indianapolis Power & Light has settled a lawsuit all...
This week: We take at the ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor, LLC steel mill. The facility recently had a big win in air quality, but is also under investigation for how it and its contracted laboratory te...