The federal Environmental Protection Agency is considering making rules for more than 60 different contaminants in drinking water that aren’t regulated right now.

Bloomington, Clarksville, and Union City will receive grants totaling $1.4 million to clean up contaminated properties.

There are a number of ways the Environmental Protection Agency under President Joe Biden can help reduce pollution in Indiana. That was one takeaway from the Hoosier Environmental Councils Earth Day panel discussion with two former EPA employees.

Indiana environmental groups have joined several others in asking the Environmental Protection Agency to limit nutrient pollution in the Ohio River.

The Environmental Protection Agency is facing a lawsuit for not setting limits for certain hazardous air pollutants at steel mills -- like mercury and the cancer-causing chemical benzene.

Since 2017, 26 areas in the Midwest region of the EPA meet air quality standards that they didnt before.

In April, the agency proposed not changing the standards for particle pollution. It announced on Monday it also doesn't plan to tighten the standards for ozone -- commonly known as smog.

The federal agency recently ordered Citgo Petroleum Corp. and Oxy USA to begin assessing and cleaning up dangerous waste at the former Cities Service Refinery site in East Chicago.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled a Dec. 3 open house in Franklin to discuss a groundwater treatment pilot study and sewer and soil work near the former Amphenol Corp. site.

The EPA cleaned up 178 residential properties and the former Carrie Gosch Elementary School during this years construction season. With that, there are 14 residential properties left to clean up, with a few to test before the end of the year.