May 22, 2013
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed adding three sites in Indiana—including one in Indianapolis—to
its highest priority cleanup list for hazardous waste sites.
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May 15, 2013
Associated PressThe operators of Indiana's largest wind farm are proposing changing the nighttime operations of the farm's 300-plus
wind turbines to protect endangered Indiana bats from being killed by the turbines' spinning blades.
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March 19, 2013
Associated PressIndiana's Department of Homeland Security and several divisions of the Department of Natural Resources would have to review
the 2,000-acre reservoir proposal, as would the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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March 1, 2013
Associated PressGovernment officials alleged Indianapolis-based CountryMark violated the law when the oil refiner expanded operations without
obtaining proper permits and installing necessary pollution controls.
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October 1, 2012
Dan HumanCummins Inc. has received the Environmental Protection Agency’s blessing on a redesigned engine that will meet the first-ever
set of federal standards for heavy-duty truck emissions.
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May 26, 2012
Chris O'MalleyDave Menzer, director of the Sierra Club’s new “Beyond Coal” campaign in Indiana, aims to spark discussion
about the health and environmental costs of the state’s bituminous bounty that for years has brought relatively cheap
electric rates.
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April 28, 2012
Chris O'MalleyNew federal mercury-reduction regulations may force Indianapolis Power & Light to spend nearly $1 billion to upgrade its
coal-fired electric plants scattered around Indiana. Duke Energy is mulling everything from plant upgrades to shutting down
older units.
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January 26, 2012
Associated PressAn analysis prepared for the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission predicts new federal clean air regulations will raise electricity
rates in the state by about 14 percent by 2020 because of necessary upgrades to coal-fired power plants.
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January 21, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe state’s largest green group is seeking changes to measures it says could strip funding and oversight for environmental
protection.
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September 3, 2011
Kathleen McLaughlinJim Tieken, a former refrigeration repairman, invented an alternative to the coolant Freon when the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency banned it in the mid-1990s. But his company might be unable to continue making that alternative, Hot Shot, because
of cap-and-trade burdens, according to a letter Tieken sent the EPA in May.
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July 16, 2011
Kathleen McLaughlinCarrier Corp.’s plan to invest $36.5 million in its Indianapolis plant hinges in part on how well consumers take to
a new platform of high-efficiency furnaces.
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June 6, 2011
Associated PressOfficials at Duke Energy don't know how soon they will be able to shut down two coal-burning units at a southern Indiana
power plant after deciding to drop a multimillion-dollar project to convert them to natural gas.
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March 12, 2011
Chris O'MalleyThe Environmental Protection Agency and the local utility are at odds over the condition of the ponds and the extent of remediation
that is necessary.
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March 5, 2011
A panel discussion includes topics ranging from green power initiatives and hybrid cars to landfill policies and environmental
regulations.
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February 24, 2011
Scott OlsonA complaint filed Wednesday by the U.S. government says Lilly's plant on South Harding Street is emitting high levels of acetonitrile
and methanol, considered hazardous air pollutants by the EPA.
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December 27, 2010
IBJ StaffEPA data show an 18 percent decrease in toxic emissions among big manufacturers and electric utilities, but it's unclear to
what degree better practices—or the slow economy—had on declining levels.
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December 16, 2010
Associated PressThe 2009 Toxics Release Inventory released Thursday shows releases of toxic chemicals to the environment by companies in Indiana
decreased by 20.6 million pounds, or 18 percent.
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November 12, 2010
Chris O'MalleyThe EPA says 300,000 gallons of sludge at the firm's northwest-side site are suspected of containing carcinogenic PCBs. A
recent court ruling could expedite clean-up efforts.
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October 13, 2010
Bloomberg NewsThe renovations complied with Indiana's plan for implementing the federal Clean Air Act, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court
of Appeals in Chicago said in Tuesday's ruling.
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September 30, 2010
Associated PressJoseph Biggio, who was executive vice president of operations at Ecological Systems Inc. from 2001 through 2007, was charged
Thursday with two counts of violating the Clean Water Act and one count of making false statements.
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September 11, 2010
Chris O'MalleyJust a few minutes northeast of vibrant Monument Circle lurks the most notorious graveyard of Indianapolis’ industrial
heyday—at least 70 of the city’s 500 brownfields. Now planners and developers aspire to revitalize the most contaminated
neighborhood in Indianapolis into a success story.
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July 17, 2010
Chris O'MalleyIndiana’s utilities are scrambling to assess the cost of tighter air pollution limits proposed this month by the Environmental
Protection Agency that could drive up electric rates.
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June 5, 2010
Norm HeikensNew U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules force precautions on paint chips, dust.
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May 8, 2010
Chris O'MalleyIDEM says in its newly released “ToxWatch” report that the level of air toxics over the last decade has “decreased
to within levels acceptable to the U.S. EPA.
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April 16, 2010
Associated PressDuke Energy says the cost of the coal-gasification power plant it's building in southwestern Indiana has risen by $530 million.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.