About $14 million will be divided among roughly 30 projects targeting excess nutrients and storm water, which feed harmful algae blooms and otherwise degrade water quality.

A bill signed into law by Gov. Eric Holcomb this month will allow the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to raise permit fees after an extensive rulemaking process.

This latest $26 million cleanup on the Lake George Canal will be funded through a partnership with the EPA, the East Chicago Waterway Management District, and oil companies Atlantic Richfield and BP.

The EPA says sediment will be dredged in Hammond and East Chicago, Indiana. Work is expected to be completed in 2020.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service posted results last week from sampling conducted in the Chicago Area Waterway System in early April.

The preserve was closed last summer so Sycamore Land Trust volunteers and contractors could build the elevated boardwalk

ACRES Land Trust says it planted 55,000 native hardwood saplings this spring on more than 100 acres of marginal farmland.

The Indiana NAACP is asking the state to include an environmental justice advocate on the new energy policy task force. The group met with Gov. Eric Holcomb to discuss the issue and other things this week.

The citys wellfield is contaminated with PCE, a cancer-causing chemical used to degrease metal and in dry cleaning.

A report released this week says Indiana and the rest of the world are going to have to make transformative changes to avoid losing more than 1 million species of plants and animals.