In the past decade, as many as 24 children in the small city of Franklin were diagnosed with rare cancers. Their parents want the federal government to declare a cancer cluster and investigate. But defining a cancer cluster - so it can be investigated - is complicated.

Residents are concerned about a contingency that allows the agency to use a less stringent cleanup plan if the city moves forward with industrial, instead of residential, redevelopment.

Two groups are seeking a federal investigation about why toxic contamination persisted in an Indianapolis suburb decades after it was first discovered.

East Chicago residents say a public meeting on the USS Lead Superfund cleanup last week left questions unanswered and several people didn't get a chance to speak.

The award will be used to combat algal blooms which have been a consistent issue in bodies of water, due to changes in water temperature, as well as heavy rainfall and nutrient runoff.

Residents questioned the EPA representatives about ongoing health hazards, groundwater contamination, and testing consistency across East Chicago's Superfund site.

Ballast water is sometimes blamed for introducing invasive species into new waterways - like the zebra mussel, which has cost the Great Lakes region billions of dollars.

Residents living in the USS Lead Superfund site in East Chicago will have opportunities to talk with the Environmental Protection Agency and learn more about its cleanup plans this month.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently re-approved its use for dicamba resistant soybean and cotton crops. Last year, a coalition of farmers and environmentalists filed a lawsuit against the EPA for approving the weedkiller.

At issue is a part of the Energy Independence and Security Act, which only allows land cultivated before 2007 to grow corn and soybeans for biofuels.