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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Wary Indiana Plans for Indiana BioTown face obstacles, but sputter on		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 24 Mar 2008 In 2005, Reynolds, Ind., was deemed the world's first "BioTown," as agricultural officials unveiled a plan to power the 550-person burg entirely with corn, hog waste, sewage, and other energy sources in ready local supply. Three years and many obstacles later, the ambitious proposal is far off track. A significant private investor dropped out; construction on a planned ethanol plant ...
Topics: agriculture, energy, Indiana, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Time Is Money Daylight-saving time leads to higher energy use, says study		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:32 PM on 27 Feb 2008 Daylight-saving time was enacted as an energy-saving measure, but when time springs forward on March 9, people may actually use more energy, says a new study. When all of Indiana began to participate in daylight-saving time -- before 2006, only 15 of the state's 92 counties would spring forward and fall back -- researchers at the University of California-Santa Barbara started tracking Hoos ...
Topics: Ed Markey, energy, energy at home, Indiana, news (all these topics)

Numb31Mrs CBS to pay $31 million to clean up Indiana Superfund sites		20 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 7:43 AM on 20 Feb 2008 The media giant CBS has agreed to pay $31 million to clean up six ultra-polluted Superfund sites around Bloomington, Ind. CBS is the corporate successor of Westinghouse, which ran industrial operations in the area that polluted streams and groundwater with high concentrations of PCBs. An agreement to clean up the contamination in the 1990s was abandoned; CBS has been negotiating another deal wi ...
Topics: business, Indiana, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

More proof that coal ain't cheap Duke wins approval for a $3100/kW plant	Sean Casten	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill
From E&E News ($ub req'd): Indiana has approved a $2 billion, 630 MW integrated gasificiation/combined cycle coal plant. Two billion divided by 630 MW = $3,174/kW. If we assume that coal equity investors expect to recover their investment over 20 years, with an 11 percent return, that works out to 5.7 cents/kWh just to pay off the capital for the power plant. Add in another 3 cents or so for transmission and distribution, and a couple cents for fuel and operating cos ...
Topics: business, coal, energy, Indiana (all these topics)

Boo Hoo Hoosier Indiana regulators approve coal plant		21 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 21 Nov 2007 Apparently not having received the memo that denying coal plants is the hip thing to do, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has approved an application from Duke Energy to build a coal-gasification plant in the city of Edwardsport. The bright side (if you can call it that): Duke will have to submit a plan on how to capture carbon-dioxide emissions from the plant. But still. sources: The New York Times ...
Topics: coal, energy, Indiana, news (all these topics)

They're Busy Not Enforcing the Clean Air Act EPA not enforcing Clean Water Act, says report		12 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:35 PM on 12 Oct 2007 The U.S. EPA is not so much enforcing the Clean Water Act, says a new report from green group U.S. PIRG. According to EPA data, 57 percent of the country's industrial plants and municipal wastewater facilities dumped more than the allowable level of pollutants and sewage into waterways at least once in 2005, the most recent year that records are available. The average vio ...
Topics: Indiana, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Tippecanoe and Tainted Too Indiana county has three times more parking spaces than residents		19 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:23 PM on 19 Sep 2007 Indiana's Tippecanoe County is home to 155,000 residents whom apparently are swamped with visitors, as the county has 355,000 public parking spaces. We'll just float this by them: Parking lots can contribute to water pollution, erosion, the urban heat island effect, and local flooding. Which could be extra dangerous for those in a Tippecanoe -- if you get our drift. They ...
Topics: Indiana, news, placemaking, sprawl, water pollution (all these topics)

Emission Accomplished Indiana regulators give BP a pass on meeting federal soot regulations		29 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Emission Accomplished Indiana regulators give BP a pass on meeting federal soot regulations Last week, oil company BP backed off of a plan to dump lots more ammonia and sludge into Lake Michigan; this week, Indiana regulators granted the same refinery an exemption to a federal rule that would have required it to halve its soot emissions. Because we certainly wouldn't want it polluting too litt ...
Topics: air pollution, Big Oil, Indiana, news, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Victory, with a catch BP promises to stop dumping waste into the Great Lakes	Jon Rynn	24 Aug 2007	Gristmill
On July 15, the Chicago Tribune reported that BP wanted to significantly increase the discharge of ammonia and toxic wastes into the Great Lakes. The outcry was enormous -- even Republican congressmen from the area joined in the criticism, and several powerful congressional members, including Rahm Emanuel in the House and Barack Obama in the Senate, threatened hearings. The city of Chicago was considering legal action, and a large petition drive began. Apparently the pol ...
Topics: business, Chicago, energy, George Bush, Indiana, oil, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Lower the Pollution and Back Away Slowly BP says it will back off from releasing more Lake Michigan pollution		24 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Lower the Pollution and Back Away Slowly BP says it will back off from releasing more Lake Michigan pollution In what's being billed as a victory for environmentalists, oil company BP has said it will back off from dumping more pollution into Lake Michigan. The company had just weeks ago received permission from Indiana state authorities to increase the amount of sludge particles and ammonia it could rel ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, Indiana, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Um, If It's Not Too Much Trouble? EPA suggests wishy-washy compromise in Indiana BP permit mess		15 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Um, If It's Not Too Much Trouble? EPA suggests wishy-washy compromise in Indiana BP permit mess Officials from the U.S. EPA have stepped in to quell the furor over a controversial permit the state of Indiana granted to a BP refinery. The permit will allow BP to discharge more ammonia and sludge into Lake Michigan -- at legal limits, but increased over previous amounts. Residents and politicians in Indiana, Illinois, M ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, Indiana, news, oil (all these topics)

Beyond Pathetic BP allowed to increase waste discharges into Lake Michigan		17 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Beyond Pathetic BP allowed to increase waste discharges into Lake Michigan The ugly (and imaginary) conflict between environment and economy has reared its head in Indiana, where state and federal regulators granted exemptions that will allow oil giant BP to discharge more waste from a refinery straight into Lake Michigan. You may recall that BP is moving "Beyond Petroleum." Bu ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, Indiana, insanity, news, oil, water pollution (all these topics)

Quad Squad On college Earth Day fests	Umbra Fisk	06 Mar 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, With Earth Day coming up, our environmental group at Purdue, Campus Greens, is trying to plan some events. Last year we had 15 groups handing out information and we provided free veggie burgers plus other food. This year we were hoping to expand on that success and include some activities like having people manually power a TV, washing machine, or some electronic device. Other than that, we're really struggling for ideas ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, Indiana (all these topics)

Hog Heaven Indiana burg to become 'BioTown'		13 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Hog Heaven Indiana burg to become "BioTown" The small farming community of Reynolds, Ind., is gearing up to take advantage of its ripest renewable resource: vast amounts of stinky hog poop. Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) and the Indiana Department of Agriculture have designated the one-traffic-light burg as the world's first "BioTown." The plan is for i ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Indiana, news, renewable energy, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

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