Indiana Renewable Energy Standards 1
Well, maybe not yet ... According to information provided by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Indiana is the only state in the Great Lakes region without a renewable energy plan. Illinois,...
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Renewable energy standards, when enacted, require electric utilities to generate a certain amount of electricity from renewable or alternative energy sources by a given date. Indiana's non-existent...
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IFA Approves Coal Emissions Deal
The Indiana Finance Authority approved a proposal from Leucadia National Corp. to purchase fuel manufactured from Indiana coal and converted into a natural gas substitute. IFA been requested the...
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Top Environmental Stories of 2010
Felicity Barringer, writing in a blog entry for the New York Times, has a list of the top environmental story lines for 2010. She leads with this ... Top 10 lists are often relentlessly negative: the...
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Indiana Gasification, LLC Submits Permit Request to IDEM
On Thursday, April 22, Indiana Gasification, LLC, which is owned by Leucadia National Corp., submitted its permit application to construct its plant. The proposal is opposed by environmental groups. In...
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Indiana's Ethanol Industry: Continued Growth
The Indiana Corn Marketing Council (ICMC) says a new study demonstrates that the ethanol industry in Indiana continues to grow. ICMC says that Indiana’s 13 operating ethanol facilities are responsible...
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Climate Change: Some Politics, Some Truth
Well, this isn't Indiana law - statutes, regulations, or cases - but it is interesting, nonetheless. The United Nations conference on climate change meets this week in Durban, South Africa. It is...
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Ethanol Watch: Federal Court Finds California LCFS Unconstitutional
On December 29, 2011, a Federal District Court in California issued a decision consistent with the arguments made by the ethanol industry - ruling that California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is...
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Senate Ag Committee Releases 2012 Farm Bill
Because of the intersection of ag policy and the environment, I like to look at each Farm Bill as it crosses the plate. This bill is barely out of the box, but it's worth a peek to see what's coming...
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IDEM Issues Proposed Permit to Indiana Gasification, LLC
IDEM has issued its final draft of a proposed permit for the Indiana Gasification, LLC plant in Rockport. The permit is here. Indiana Gasification Permit.pdf The facility will convert coal into...
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E15: Going Green Ain't Easy
Like any revolution, the green one we are now engaged in comes with both resistance and controversy. - E15, which is a gasoline blend with a 15 percent blend of ethanol, is encountering resistance as...
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The Domestic Fuels Protection Act of 2012: Protecting the Ethanol Industry
The official synopsis of H.R. 4345, the Domestic Fuels Protection Act of 2012: To provide liability protection for claims based on the design, manufacture, sale, offer for sale, introduction into...
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Indiana Among 8 Midwestern States with Greatest Increases in Rain Storms...
The National Resource Defense Council, in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, issued a report this week that is intended to demonstrate that rain storms in the Midwest with more...
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Climate Change is a Democrat Party Plot
Let’s face it. Al Gore not only invented the Internet, he created climate change . . . all to perpetuate the Democrat Party’s dominance of the environmental agenda. Couldn’t be, perhaps, that nearly...
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The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
Yale Environment 360 has posted an interesting interview with Michael Klare, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. Klare most recent book is entitled The...
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Coal in Crisis: Conflict and Consensus about Common Fossil Fuels
As we continue the endless debate about environmental issues, remedies, and policy, we would do well to remember that what happens in the United States represents only a fraction of the environmental...
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Joe Donnelly on Energy and Climate Change
Joe Donnelly on energy and climate change: "Today it is clearer than ever that our country needs a comprehensive energy policy that aims to lower gas prices and lessen our dependence on foreign sources...
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Is Winter too Cold for You? Just Wait a Decade or Two
The evidence continues to mount that global warming is real - no matter what the conservative wing of anybody's political party says. In an article in the New York Times this morning, research...
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Indiana Is Now Ranked 20th Among States Generating Electricity from Wind Power
In May 2011, Indiana enacted a voluntary Clean Energy Portfolio Standard (CPS), that sets a goal of 10 percent of the state’s electric generation to come from clean energy sources by 2025. At this...
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Great Lakes Restoration: An Interactive Map of GLC Work
The Great Lakes Commission (GLC) has released a new interactive map of the nearly 1,000 restoration projects being implemented under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). The interactive map...
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