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Energy & Environment
Feds criticize Indiana education program for migrant children
December 19, 2012
Associated PressIndiana never spent millions of dollars the federal government provided to help make sure the children of migrant workers
get a good education, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Education.
MoreCalumet Specialty buys Texas refinery for $115M
December 18, 2012
IBJ Staff and Associated PressIndianapolis-based Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP said Monday that it is buying NuStar's San Antonio, Texas, refinery
assets for about $115 million.
MoreCitizens Energy CEO Lykins enjoys big pay boost
December 15, 2012
Chris O'MalleyCitizens Energy Group—a not-for-profit, public charitable trust—doubled its size last year with its $1.9 billion purchase
of the city’s water and sewer utilities last year. It also doubled the pay of CEO Carey Lykins.
MoreMississippi power group to join Carmel MISO
December 14, 2012
Associated PressHattiesburg-based SMEPA, which generates and wholesales power to 11 electric cooperatives serving 410,000 Mississippi customers,
says it will join Carmel-based Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator in December 2013.
MoreIndiana farmers fear estate tax changes
December 14, 2012
Associated PressIndiana farmers say they have a lot to lose should the nation go over the so-called fiscal cliff, a set of automatic spending
cuts and tax hikes set to take effect in January unless the White House and Republicans negotiate a compromise.
MoreIndy firm to clean up tainted Terre Haute site
December 13, 2012
Associated PressTerre Haute officials this week awarded a $2.7 million contract to an Indianapolis company for the removal of soil to a depth
of 10 feet on much of a 20-acre site where Terre Haute Coke and Carbon operated from 1926 until 1988.
MoreCity unveils plan to convert vehicle fleet from gas, diesel
December 12, 2012
IBJ Staff and Associated PressMayor Greg Ballard outlined plans to shift the city's fleet of cars, heavy trucks and even police cruisers to a mix of electricity
and natural gas by 2025.
MoreIndiana court hears Duke Energy ice storm case
December 10, 2012
Associated PressAn attorney for Duke Energy Corp. urged the Indiana Court of Appeals on Monday to reverse a state regulatory panel's decision
blocking the company's attempt to pass onto its customers the cost of damages it incurred during a 2009 ice storm.
MoreYogurt bares all, but container is recyclable
December 8, 2012
Company descended from Ball Corp. making recyclable glass packaging for product typically found in plastic.
MoreMidwest Energy oil firm drilling for $15M
December 8, 2012
Chris O'MalleyAn Indianapolis investment advisory oil firm has been looking for blowouts in its own back yard. Midwest Energy Partners is
preparing for its seventh—and largest—round of funding to pay for oil drilling in southwestern Indiana and southeastern
Illinois.
MoreCitizens plans new unit to sell liquefied natural gas
December 6, 2012
Chris O'MalleyCitizens Energy Group’s multistate transportation and industrial fueling subsidiary would market the gas as an alternative
vehicle fuel.
MoreMonarch turns to natural gas to run trucking fleet
December 4, 2012
J.K. WallIn a sign of the rising popularity of natural gas engines, the Indianapolis-based distributor of alcoholic beverages will
make 85 of its 105 trucks run on natural gas by 2015.
MoreRegulator approves Duke Energy probe settlement
December 3, 2012
Associated PressDuke Energy formalized deals Monday that ended separate investigations by North Carolina regulators and the attorney general
into whether the utility misled officials before a merger that made it the country's largest electric company.
MoreIndiana experiencing surge in wind power market
December 2, 2012
Associated PressIndiana has a wind resource of 148,228 megawatts, the 15th biggest in the country, according to industry trade group the American
Wind Energy Association. And its growing.
MoreRailcar shipments making a comeback in Indiana
December 1, 2012
Scott OlsonHigh diesel prices are turning companies to trains.
MoreWabash Valley Power aggressively shifting to greener alternatives
December 1, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe Wabash Valley Power Association has been reducing its dependence on energy produced from coal—from 95 percent five
years ago to 54 percent today. The utility is leaning more on natural gas and even renewable-energy sources like methane from
landfills and animal waste.
MoreCrews face deadline on central Indiana wind farm project
November 30, 2012
Associated PressConstruction crews are hustling to beat a Dec. 31 deadline to get 125 turbines in operation for a wind farm that is eventually
planned to reach into four central Indiana counties.
MoreIron ore processor plans $350M Indiana project
November 27, 2012
IBJ StaffA Minnesota-based mining company plans to spend as much as $350 million to build a iron ore pellet plant in Indiana, creating
up to 100 jobs by 2015, the company announced Tuesday morning.
MoreAirport could land second solar-energy farm
November 21, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe Indianapolis Airport Authority is in talks that could lead to a second solar farm at Indianapolis International Airport.
Discussions are taking place even as the initial solar farm has yet to get off the ground.
MoreDrought no obstacle to record income for U.S. farms
November 21, 2012
Bloomberg NewsEven after the worst drought in a half-century shriveled crops from Ohio to Nebraska, U.S. farmers are having their most-profitable
year ever because of record- high prices and insurance claims.
MoreExactTarget co-founder Baggott turns zeal to natural farming
November 17, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinChris Baggott has spent the past year and a half raising cattle, pigs and chickens on pasture, rather than conventional feed
grain, and without the use of hormones or antibiotics.
MoreTransit, runoff bills on environmental group's legislative wish list
November 17, 2012
Chris O'MalleyBut with a legislature that could be unreceptive to environmental policy, HEC is also guarding against an unwinding of existing
laws.
MoreGreen BEAN Delivery expands with second farm
November 17, 2012
The locally based purveyor of organic produce is leasing 50 acres in Ohio to serve its customers in that state, Indiana and
Kentucky.
MoreLilly Endowment gives Indiana nature trust $10M grant
November 14, 2012
Associated PressThe grant announced Wednesday by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources brings to $30 million the amount of funding for
the initiative to acquire more wilderness land to mark the state's 200th birthday in 2016.
MoreGift lets land trust preserve 109 acres in Johnson County
November 13, 2012
Dan HumanA $200,000 gift from the Dr. Laura Hare Charitable Trust will help the Central Indiana Land Trust acquire 109 forested acres
in southwest Johnson County.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.