The Hoosier Environmental Council and five other groups are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over recent rollbacks to coal ash regulations.

The EPA wants to merge the Office of the Science Advisor with the Office of Science Policy, which would give it less authority.

The technical advisor could discuss important developments coming up like the EPA's proposed cleanup plan for the West Calumet Housing Complex.

The EPA says partial replacement doesn't reduce lead contamination and can sometimes make it worse.

The EPA only conducted 13 percent of all asbestos compliance inspections from 2011 to 2015. States responsible for their own monitoring did 87 percent.

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

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to tighten restrictions on lead dust in homes. But it wouldn't affect those by Superfund sites like USS Lead in East Chicago.

New rules from the Environmental Protection Agency give states the power to set their own goals for greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.

The Environmental Protection Agency says replacing only some of the lead pipes leading to a home doesn't reduce lead contamination in drinking water and can even make it worse when the old pipes are disturbed.

Experts say the discovery is the planet's largest fresh water system is alarming.