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.

The dairy farm has been the subject of a lawsuit between the county and the Hoosier Environmental Council since September.

Indiana Department of Environmental Management sent letters to utilities in December noting that it can't give approval until utilities show how the plans will control contamination.

In June, a truck owned by MOB Carriers, Inc. overturned off of Interstate 70 near Richmond, spilling about 1,000 gallons of a cosmetic ingredient into Clear Creek.

U.S. Steel says it normally discharges some material into the Burns Waterway, this time it just happened to foam.

The part of the facility that helps control pollutants caught on fire in September.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management will collect written comments and hear public testimony about the draft air permit during a Dec. 5 hearing in Lincoln City.

The Main Ash Pond, owned by Tanners Creek Development LLC, is a "legacy pond" - which means it's located at a closed down power plant.

Experts looking for cancer-causing chemicals in Franklin say, so far, they don't see a widespread problem in the city. But recent sampling results show more investigation is needed.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management will sample about two dozen private wells in the Paris Estates subdivision on Monday, according to the Johnson County Health Department.