The public hearing was met with anger and skepticism from some residents who live on the site, as the response comes more than five years after the EPA identified the problem.

The complex was built on the site of a former lead smelter and two years ago the city and the East Chicago Housing Authority ordered that more than 1,000 residents be relocated.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management referred the Wheeler well field in Anderson to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for long-term cleanup funding.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finished removing lead-contaminated soil from 101 properties at the American Lead site in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood of Indianapolis.

The EPA said Monday it issued two unilateral administrative orders for residential areas slated for cleanups in East Chicago's USS Lead Superfund site.

The Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting in January.

The former DuPont site is not a Superfund, but is contaminated with lead and arsenic, as well as zinc and cadmium.

An EPA rule would require animal farmers to reports certain air emissions above a certain amount.

Many Hoosiers want to see the set reduce carbon emissions, even as the federal government moves to rollback climate policies.

Industry groups cheered the move, while environmental groups continue to decry the Trump Administration's rollback of Obama-era climate regulations.