Maryland environmental officials filed a petition Wednesday asking the EPA to crack down on 19 coal plants in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

The company plans to cap storage basins in Cayuga, New Albany, Owensville and Terre Haute, Indiana.

The parks will close to visitors on Nov. 14 and 15, and Nov. 28 and 29, but open to hunters eligible to take part in the hunts.

The preserve south of Auburn protects 2,700 feet of the west bank of Cedar Creek and boasts a half-mile trail open daily from dawn to dusk.

The EPA will begin removing lead contaminated soil from 13 yards this fall.

Workers installed the equipment last week at WellPet's factory in Mishawaka, about 10 miles east of South Bend.

A lawsuit could add Indiana to the Ozone Transport Region, a group of 11 states required by the EPA to reduce smog-causing pollutants.

A new bison herd arrived in Northwest Indiana over the weekend and the animals will have a unique role - as conservation assistants.

The reductions are necessary because of a decline in fish that salmon and trout eat, such as alewife and rainbow smelt.

They want a federal judge to force the EPA to add nine more states, including Indiana, to the group required by law to act together to reduce smog in the Northeast.