EcoReport - June 28, 2012

In today’s feature report, WFHB Assistant News director Joe Crawford brings us a report on Indiana’s impaired waterways. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is preparing to submit to the federal government its updated list of hundreds of so-called ‘impaired waterways’ throughout the state. The Department compiles the list by monitoring an ever-increasing amount of water in the state’s lakes, rivers and streams. The draft report is being prepared as state and national attention begins to focus on two of the contaminants mentioned most often throughout the report. Since this feature first aired earlier this month, the U.S. Senate voted to uphold the EPA’s regulation of mercury emissions, which should force many coal-burning power plants to upgrade technology to reduce pollution.

EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live.  Each program features timely eco-related headline news, a feature interview or event recording, and a calendar of events of interest to the environmentally conscious.