Indiana officials appear to be working hard to get our share of the 5 million “green jobs” President
Obama says he’ll create. Sounds like a good idea, except for one problem: No one can really say just what
a green job is.
Calumet Specialty Products LP posted a profit of $3.9 million in the third quarter, recovering from a $12.5 million loss in
the same period last year.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $6.3 million to two Indiana colleges to install environmentally friendly geothermal energy systems.
IPL will receive $20 million to help pay for a $48.8 million project to install more than 28,000 smart meters; Midwest ISO
will get $17.3 million toward a $34.5 million project to install 150 phasor measurement units.
Dow AgroSciences, the local subsidiary of Midland, Mich.-based Dow Chemical Co., said Thursday that revenue fell 20 percent
and profits plummeted in the third quarter due largely to lower crop commodity prices.
Researchers are finding a host of pharmaceutical residues in tributaries to the White River, from which Indianapolis and other
cities draw drinking water.
A soggy spring and wet fall have left Indiana farmers scrambling to harvest their soybeans so they can replant the fields with winter crops.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management says an Indianapolis junkyard is the first in the state to receive its recognition for environmentally friendly practices.
How rich that Elinor Ostrom, the Indiana University professor who won a Nobel prize for economics yesterday, got her nails
dirty researching how people in pockets of forests in undeveloped nations allocate their natural resources.
Record harvests are being forecast for corn and soybean farmers, and now the focus turns to bringing the giant crop in from
the field.
West Lafayette’s city council has delayed implementation of a new “pay as you throw” garbage collection system.
Tyson Foods Inc. plans to expand a poultry-processing operation in southern Indiana and says it will add nearly 80 jobs.
The bright lights of Indiana’s largest city are getting brighter—at hundreds of street intersections, anyway.
It’s been a year since Republican Mayor Greg Ballard launched the City’s Office of Sustainability. On Oct. 6,
Ballard and his sustainability director, Karen Haley, outlined accomplishments in the first year.
Dow AgroSciences could boost its market share in genetically altered corn almost overnight by inventing a perennial corn.
But investors might not have the patience.
Pendleton-based Remy International today formally unveiled its ‘off the shelf’ electric motors for hybrid vehicles.
The Indiana Department of Transportation is trying to get a better handle on exactly how many billboards sit along the state’s
highways after a federal agency found problems in Indiana and threatened to withhold $90 million.
Most evenings, Gary Mithoefer can be found at the end of a long gravel driveway off a busy highway, tending two garden plots. He’s one of a growing number of Americans digging into the dirt to raise crops on a small scale.
Officials grappling with a water utility deep in debt and a sewer infrastructure needing upwards of $2 billion in
upgrades were swamped with proposals about how to fix the mess.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels told a conference of industrial energy customers that the pursuit of green jobs and alternative fuels could increase energy costs without improving the environment.<
