May 23, 2013
Dan HumanSome of the violations cited by the state are related to poor handling of hazardous materials at the Heritage-Crystal Clean
Inc. facility in Speedway.
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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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February 16, 2013
Chris O'MalleyOptions include increasing exports as opposition to coal-fired electricity generation heats up at both national and local
levels.
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December 22, 2012
Penalties will help fund clean-up of East Washington Street site.
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September 7, 2012
Associated PressEnvironmentalists and Indiana's newspaper association say a state agency's plans to stop publishing notices about
public hearings on air-quality issues will leave some residents in the dark about policy changes that could impact their health.
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March 14, 2012
Associated PressAn Indiana regulatory panel passed new rules Wednesday aimed at protecting the quality of the state's waterways. The new
rules are aimed at lowering the levels of pollutants released into waterways by companies.
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February 18, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe Indiana Department of Transportation and a contractor on the Interstate 69 project downstate have been cited for more
than a dozen deficiencies in preventing erosion and the flow of sediment into streams.
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January 29, 2012
Associated PressA state effort to address phosphorous pollution that has fouled Indiana's waterways is moving forward slowly, but environmental
groups' hopes for help from lawmakers is likely to be dashed this year.
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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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July 29, 2011
IBJ StaffThe Indiana Department of Environmental Management says an inspection of the State of Indiana Forensic and Health Sciences
Lab found open jugs of hazardous materials during an inspection.
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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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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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November 28, 2010
Associated PressMore than three years after sparking an uproar by issuing BP a permit allowing it to discharge more pollution from its Whiting
refinery, Indiana is still issuing permits under the same problematic set of rules that played a role in that 2007 controversy.
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October 20, 2010
IBJ Staff and Associated PressIndiana will benefit from a $25.2 million environmental trust established to clean up and redevelop eight former General Motors
plants throughout the state, officials said Wednesday.
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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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August 28, 2010
Associated PressThe Indiana Department of Environmental Management's top attorney asked agency staff to change how they cite companies for
violating the state's water pollution law.
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July 19, 2010
Associated PressThe Indiana Department of Environmental Management says the rule would impact sewage treatment plants upstream of lakes.
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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 22, 2010
Chris O'MalleyCost of proposed EPA ozone limit would far outweigh any potential health benefits, Indiana Department of Environmental Management
commissioner says.
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February 20, 2010
Paul TroyState environmental regulators now must consider leaving contamination in the ground so long as it doesn't threaten health
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February 6, 2010
IBJ StaffIndianapolis Power and Light Co. is suing its engineering consultant over an industrial accident that spilled 30 million
gallons of polluted water into White River.
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January 4, 2010
Chris O'MalleyIDEM's head, faulted over his role in a pollution case while at Bethlehem Steel, gets a chief of staff. Officials deny agency
shakeup on way.
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January 2, 2010
Chris O'MalleyState government hasn’t put much money toward becoming a leader among states integrating hybrids
into their massive vehicle fleets.
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December 30, 2009
Staff ReportCitizens Energy Group is redirecting to community groups more than $413,000 that it was to spend on environmental upgrade
projects at its former coke oven facility in Indianapolis, which closed in 2007.
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December 22, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinThe city of Connersville will borrow as much as $3.5 million to clean up the former Visteon site where a startup company
wants to build police cars.
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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.