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Indiana Department of Natural Resources’ picture worth a thousand words
State officials say they found no major environmental problems associated with a spill earlier this week at this well in southern Indiana. State environmental officials say they found no major...
View ArticleWar of words between Hoosier Environmental Council and IDEM
Our story on the settlement between the Hoosier Environmental Council and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management over massive piles of steel-making waste along the shore of Lake Michigan...
View ArticleDepartment of Natural Resources warns of vehicles damaging aquatic plants
The Department of Natural Resources offers something to think about the next time you’re debating whether to drive along a lake or stream that’s dropped because of Indiana’s ongoing drought. From a...
View ArticleDepartment of Natural Resources bans 28 aquatic plants; sellers not happy
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources announced today that it will soon become illegal to give away, buy or sell many common aquatic plants found in fish tanks, backyard water sculptures and koi...
View ArticleIDEM to stop posting meeting notices in newspapers; Hoosier State Press...
If you want to find out what’s on the agenda at the state’s air-quality board meetings or learn how state officials plan to enforce the latest EPA edict, you may soon have to visit the Indiana...
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Are Indianapolis’ sewers dumping into your neighborhood parks?
This post has been changed to correct two errors. Click here to see the correction. — RS Sometimes an investigation can start with the simplest of observations. We’d only been in town for a couple of...
View ArticleIndiana Department of Natural Resources confirms virus is killing deer
A couple of weeks back, we posted how biologists at the Department of Natural Resources suspected the state’s whitetail deer were increasingly dying from a nasty virus. Well, the lab tests came back....
View ArticleReaders react to our our hog-farming story
Did you see this weekend’s story on controlled-animal feeding operations in the state? Hog feces is of course a hot topic — particularly if you live near a spot that produces them. We thought we’d...
View ArticleProfessor: Gov. Mitch Daniels’ Indiana Toll Road lease burdens future...
The funds from the Indiana Toll Road lease provided a short-term, politically easy win for Gov. Mitch Daniels and his allies, to the long-term detriment of future generations. At least that’s what John...
View ArticleIndiana DNR: Stopping the spread of emerald ash borer, but for how long?
Biologists at the Indiana Department of Natural Resources are hopeful they’ve slowed the spread of the dreaded emerald ash borer, a nasty non-native beetle decimating the nation’s ash forests. From the...
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