In 2017, the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, California, exposed a new threat to public health: Wildfires can contaminate drinking water with toxic chemicals which federally mandated testing is not designed to catch. Into that regulatory void has stepped Andrew Whelton, an engineering professor at Purdue University who has made it his personal mission to help water utilities recover after devastating fires.
Indiana communities are receiving nearly $3 million in new federal support to help more children, parents and pregnant people enroll in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.