The Indiana Department of Environmental Management says a federal grant will help pay for retrofitting school buses, technology to reduce idling by tractor trucks, towboats and locomotives, and fuel-efficient tires and aerodynamic trim for tractors and trailers.
Compact downtown is big selling point for sustainable-minded planners.
Just 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.
Carmel-based Performance Services Inc. plans a 25-turbine wind farm in a rural area north of Lafayette, across about 2,500 acres in northern Tippecanoe County.
The draft net metering rule would boost the state’s power cap for renewable power units and expand it to all customer classes served by electric utilities.
Domestic vendor who thought “buy American” provision would help it win contract loses out to Taiwanese supplier.
Indiana currently licenses about 2,500 asbestos-removal professionals each year.
The 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.
First-of-its-kind event in Indianapolis showcases what’s known as the slow food movement, which promotes the benefits of producing
plants, seeds and livestock for local consumption.
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United States has shown little leadership in finding solutions to global climate change.
Xylogenics claims its yeast strain, developed at the Indiana University School of Medicine, can increase yields and lower
costs of producing corn ethanol.
Opponents of the Interstate 69 extension from Indianapolis to Evansville are warning that a 27-mile portion of the highway
could inflict significant ecological damage on a sensitive, cave-filled region of the state.
Ann Murtlow describes taking control of the troubled utility and how she handles the demands of serving on a dozen different boards.
MotoCzysz sees the Remy motor as part of an electric motorcycle-based drive system—tailored to automobiles. The companies
collaborated on the winning electric bike at Isle of Man race.
Midwest Energy Partners will back two oil/gas producers. New technologies could stoke investor returns from wells in Illinois
Basin, where production peaked decades ago.
If Citizens Energy can successfully manage and mitigate over the next two years the city’s lingering legal and contractual
obligations involving the water and sewer utilities Citizens is negotiating to buy, the city can hang onto an extra $25 million
in the deal.
The city's AAA bond rating boosts proceeds to $153.8 million. It originally expected $140 million for street, bridge and
sidewalk projects.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects Indiana farmers to produce more than 1 billion bushels of corn, compared with the
933 million bushels harvested last year. Officials also predict a record crop nationwide.
Locally based EnerDel Inc. has been riding high on prospects its lithium-ion batteries will be in hot demand to power plug-in
electric vehicles, but another market might be larger. A Piper Jaffray report estimates the global market for batteries used
to store electricity on utility power grids could be $600 billion over 10 years.
Purdue University will join the quest for cheap solar-generated electricity with an initiative aimed at speeding up research
across the industry. The Network for Photovoltaic Technology will launch this fall, focused on creating computer models to
eliminate costly and slow trial-and-error research in the solar industry.
