The Purdue University-based State Utility Forecasting Group predicts that Indiana’s electricity rates could rise by 2013 due
to more stringent environmental guidelines.
IDEM’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.
State government hasn’t put much money toward becoming a leader among states integrating hybrids
into their massive vehicle fleets.
The utility that asked state regulators permission to have customers pay $121 million for a geological study now seeks $42
million.
The Hoosier Environmental Council and Citizens Action Coalition see an expansion of the state’s
“net metering” policy as achievable during the short legislative session that starts Jan.
5.
Citizens 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.
Legislation that could bring more wind turbines and solar power projects to the state failed in the last session’s closing
hours.
Legislation that could bring more wind turbines and solar power projects to Indiana has a good chance of passing in the upcoming
legislative session after failing in the last session’s closing hours, two state lawmakers say.
Duke Energy has agreed to spend $93 million to settle clean air violations at a southern Indiana power plant where it made
unauthorized changes that significantly boosted the plant’s air pollution.
The 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.
The city of Connersville will spend $500,000 to clean up the former Visteon site where a startup company
wants to build police cars.
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller is suing a northern Indiana lumber recycling plant with a history of environmental and
worker-safety violations.
A Purdue University scientist hopes to build a special greenhouse that will grow vegetables in the Indiana winter by tapping
into excess heat produced by a power plant on the West Lafayette campus.
Environmental activists who are upset about Indiana’s water-pollution rules say they’ll ask the federal government to take
action against the state.
Hoosier Energy, which supplies electricity to customers in 48 counties in central and southern Indiana, has settled a dispute
that had threatened to plunge the utility into bankruptcy.
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission’s goal is annual statewide energy savings of 2 percent within a decade.
Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the Indianapolis Parks Foundation a $7.3 million grant to fund improvements that include
a new pool at Bethel Park on the near-southeast side.
Indiana’s farmers are facing their latest corn harvest in nearly 40 years because of a long stretch of bad weather that’s
kept them out of their fields.
Indianapolis-based Miller Pipeline Corp. announced Monday morning that it has purchased Illinois-based Elcon Pipeline Inc.,
marking the company’s fifth acquisition in the past four years.
A long series of leaked or hacked e-mails strongly indicate that several prominent climate scientists have hidden data, conspired
to hide unfavorable findings, and doctored scientific evidence.
