An Elkhart County Superfund site may soon be getting cleaned up, after former RV furniture manufacturer Flexsteel Industries agreed to pay nearly $10 million to do so under a consent decree with the Department of Justice.

The EPA is denying requests by three Midwest power plants to extend operations of leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash storage ponds. EPA says plants in Indiana, Ohio and Iowa will have to close coal ash ponds months or years ahead of schedule.

Tests have confirmed groundwater and sewer vapors in the community have cancer-causing chemicals at levels exceeding Indiana's safe limits.

The Environmental Protection Agency may be misleading potential homebuyers about contamination in Franklin.

This latest $26 million cleanup on the Lake George Canal will be funded through a partnership with the EPA, the East Chicago Waterway Management District, and oil companies Atlantic Richfield and BP.