Fish and other aquatic life are closely tied to the environment in the streams and lakes they live in. So things like changes in temperature, stream flow, and rainfall can have a big effect.

The state Water Infrastructure Task Force is looking into things like how growing populations and businesses will share water as well as replacing aging water lines and septic systems.

A priority designation makes more long-term federal funding for cleanup available. Indiana has 39 active sites on the Superfund NPL list.

Officials have scooped up or vacuumed up much of the more than 8,000 gallons of jet fuel that leaked into the St. Marys River in Adams County Friday.

The fuel spilled into the St. Marys River in Decatur, a community of about 9,500 people roughly 100 miles northeast of Indianapolis.

The Indianapolis event was one of several marches that took place across the country.

The Mitchell's satyr is a small brown butterfly that lives in high-quality wetlands fed by groundwater called fens or prairie fens.

From the 1950s to the 1980s the site, in the 2300 block of S. Tibbs Ave., was an oil collection business, then owned for a few years by a hazardous material contractor until it was abandoned for 25 years.

The Land and Water Conservation Fund was established more than 50 years ago to preserve natural areas and recreation spots - including at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and the Hoosier National Forest.

Teachers say fewer fountains and faulty air conditioning makes it difficult for kids to learn.