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This week: A new survey finds that a vast majority of Hoosiers say they believe in climate change, and Indiana officials hope to protect the state's native plants by banning some invasive plants.
This week: A new study warns that about 1 million plant and animal species are at risk due to human action, and Hoosiers may soon have to pay more money to recover from natural disasters.
This week: The U.S. Navy wants residents living near NSA Crane to test their water wells for potentially hazardous PFAS compounds, and we take a look at why an Indianapolis apartment complex isn't ...
This week: It's a big week for Indiana on Capitol Hill. Two Indiana University professors testified before separate environmental hearings. We take a look at the issues they're championing in Washi...
This week: We take a look at how the state of Indiana's position on pesticides in food products selected for the state's WIC program could be exposing needy Hoosier families to potentially toxic ch...
This week: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lifted a ban on the sale of higher ethanol blends of gasoline during the summer months, a move that will benefit corn growers in Indiana but coul...
This week: A government report says some Defense Department facilities may not be prepared for the effects of climate change, and the IER crew talks about HBO's Chernobyl and the state of Indiana's...
This Week: We learn more about a proposed Vigo County ammonia plant that seeks to have a near-zero carbon footprint, and health organizations are suing the Trump administration to stop an air pollu...
This week: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expands the use of a pesticide it admits is "very highly toxic" to bees, and teachers get lessons on how to teach students about climate change.
This week: The U.S. EPA has chosen not to ban an Indiana-made pesticide linked to brain abnormalities and autism in children, and the state of Indiana has chosen the first round of proposals for Vo...
This Week: Air quality gains have slowed after two decades of improvement, and an app is helping beekeepers and growers check in on their bees without disturbing them.
This week: Community and environmental groups are suing the EPA for higher dust-lead standards, and environmental groups are concerned a Hoosier National Forest management plan may have a negative ...
This week: We track a chemical release in the Little Calumet River, and we take a look at how changes to the Endangered Species Act could make it harder to protect vulnerable plants and animals.
This week: The town of Speedway is trying to find out who is dumping a large amount of industrial oil into the town's water supply, and a biofuel company says Big Oil's relationship with the Trump ...
This week: Lots of roll backs. The Trump administration rolls back a rule that would have made light bulbs more efficient, and the EPA rolls back limits on methane, a greenhouse has 25 times more p...
This week: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rolls back a 2015 rule that expands the definition of waterways protected by federal law, and the state of Indiana and 19 other states are backin...
This week: Hoosiers joined a global climate strike, and the EPA may rewrite a cross-state pollution rule after a court cracked down on open-ended compliance deadlines.
This week: A long-term Indiana University air pollution monitoring program will use a $5.9 million grant to measure the amount of PFAS chemicals in the Great Lakes, and a new book and movie chronic...
This week: Two midwestern environmental advocacy groups take the first step in suing the company that owns a steel mill in northwestern Indiana responsible for Clean Water Act violations, and the s...
This week: A new proposal from the EPA limiting the amount of lead and copper in drinking water could help ensure safer drinking water in schools, and NASA has made available nearly 20 years of sat...
This week: A pair of environmental advocacy groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to tighten national emissions standards for toxic pollution from steel mills, and an EPA proposal se...
This week: After disastrous flooding, officials in Goshen, Indiana embark on a journey of climate change resilience, and a new online tool seeks to help communities prepare for climate change befor...
This week: We talked to a former Russian army soldier who survived the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 and eventually made his way to the U.S. He thought his first brush with environmental disas...
This week: We take a look at why Indiana ranks 44th in the nation for new incidences of lung cancer, and the federal government makes a deal with a national cement company for alleged Clean Air Act...
This week: A major electricity supplier in Indiana plans to retire two coal-fired units at its Petersburg Generating Station, and we take a look at what you can do to make sure your campfire fuel i...
This week: Millions of servicemembers and their families may have been exposed to chemicals linked to potentially deadly health conditions, and an Indianapolis group specializes in turning discarde...
This week: IER investigates how the government shutdown is affecting national parks in Indiana, and we speak to an Obama-era official who says a new EPA proposal could allow power plants in Indiana...
With two Musical Composition/Arrangement Emmy wins behind him, professor Larry Groupé talks with Dean Shanahan about Hollywood scoring for movies, video games, and shows. Groupé leads IU's new film...
Burt, Johnny (narrator); McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
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Johnny Burt recalls how as a boy, he once found a large nest of snakes at the edge of his yard in the Small Farms. He recounts, "They were coming up on our fence! I had to get on the fence, and gra...
Griffith resident Arianne Campbell describes the illegal dumping at the spring that inspired a 2016 community clean-up at the site. "...there's an area where we have a natural running spring," Camp...
Burt, Johnny (narrator); McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
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Siblings Johnny Burt and Exnar McIntosh-Burt describe community life around the Chase Street Spring when they grew up in Small Farms. Exnar discusses how people met there while getting water, and J...
Reverend Terence Standifer, the former pastor of the Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Small Farms, discusses how pollution affected the Little Calumet River and the surrounding area. He...
Steve Truchan details life growing up in the Small Farms community in Lake County, Indiana. He says that "everybody was a farmer." He describes a beautiful scene surrounding the Chase Street Spring...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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The Black Oak spring was located on the property of Dorothy Waters' childhood home in Black Oak. Waters says that her grandfather (who built the house in 1926) sold the water from the well to a man...
Chuck Hughes, executive director of the Gary Chamber of Commerce, describes how the Chase Street spring water was like a treat for him and other children.
This was one of a group of excerpts gath...
Betty Earlene Jordan describes the Small Farms community's use of the Chase Street spring when she was a child. She says that the spring was "all [she] ever knew, growing up." Because she saw so ma...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Dorothy Waters grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Township and her parents owned farm land near the Chase Street spring in Small Farms. Waters and her siblings pulled weeds in their f...
Betty Earlene Jordan, who grew up in the community of Black Oak in Lake County, Indiana, talks about how, at a physical therapy appointment earlier that day, she spoke with two people who had very ...
Griffith resident Arianne Campbell discusses the impact of pollution on Gary's waterways and how it has affected her life and hobbies. She describes fishing on the Little Calumet River on the same ...
Professor Kristin Huysken, an Associate Professor of Geology and Chairperson in the Department of Geosciences at Indiana University Northwest, discusses the science of artesian wells. She says that...
Professor Kristin Huysken explains the proper conditions necessary for an artesian well to flow. "It has to be like...a sandwich," she says. "You have to have an impermeable layer...with a permeabl...
Ida Lloyd shares her memory of gathering water from the Chase Street Spring in the wintertime. She discusses the ever-flowing, never-freezing nature of the artesian well and describes the difficult...
Burt, Johnny (narrator); McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
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Exnar McIntosh-Burt and her brother, Johnny Burt, talk about the community's use of the Chase Street Spring when they were growing up. Exnar describes the artesian well as "like food for us," as ma...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Dorothy Waters' childhood home in the Black Oak neighborhood was located on the same property as the Black Oak spring, an artesian well that was open to the public. Waters says, "Anybody that wante...
Pam Powers discusses the flooding that regularly occurred on the south side of Highway 80/90 and the creative methods residents -- her aunt, in particular -- employed to deal with them. She elabora...
Pam Powers shares a childhood memory of her neighbors in Small Farms who cultivated a large garden and shared the produce with her family. From her bedroom window, she could see the sunflowers they...
Dorothy Waters grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Township and her parents owned farm land near the Chase Street spring in Small Farms. Waters and her siblings pulled weeds in their f...
Little Calumet River Basin Development Commissioner David Castellanos credits Lake County Commissioner Roosevelt Allen for first bringing the Chase St. Spring to his attention. He talks with people...
Reverend Terence Standifer, the former pastor of the Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Small Farms, shares his experience doing community outreach for an Environmental Protection Agency ...
