The new guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognize that not every person who gets exposed to one cancer-causing chemical or multiple will get the same type of cancer.

Kari Rhinehart, co-founder of the Franklin group If It Was Your Child, will speak at the event at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management said proposed changes at the Metalworking Lubricants Co. may reduce pollution. But residents are skeptical anything will change.

The EPA said monitoring will continue at the three sites, which were contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

The agency suspects the water pollution at the Martinsville Superfund site mostly came from a local laundry and dry cleaning business in the 1980s.

Indiana releases the most toxic pollution per square mile and the state's top three emitters are steel companies.

The EPA's proposal chiefly aims to clean up high levels of trichloroethene, or TCE, a chemical the federal agency has classified as a carcinogen

When a coal plant shuts down, the loss of jobs and tax revenue can be devastating for the towns that host them. The state is grappling with how to help workers and local governments in Indiana with that transition.

The federal agency said it recently finished the cleanup of the Midco II Superfund Site near the Gary/Chicago International Airport, paving the way for the airport's potential reuse of the Gary site.

According to a new report from Earthjustice and the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, 70 percent of the most dangerous hazardous waste sites in the country are located within a mile of federally assisted housing.