EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a rule delaying the monitoring and clean-up of coal ash from power plants in Indiana and across the country.

Indiana coal plants discharging wastewater into rivers under state permits are under renewed scrutiny after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency delayed tougher pollution rules by five years.

House Republicans and the Trump administration have proposed significant cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency next fiscal year. They say it's an effort to reduce "wasteful spending" and give more environmental oversight back to states like Indiana.

Dicamba is known to drift off of fields where it's applied and damage neighboring crops.

The standards set by the Biden administration aim to address a kind of pollution that isn't being controlled right now — leaks of toxic heavy metals and fine particles that don't come from a single point like a smoke stack. This pollution puts people living nearby at a greater risk for lung and heart problems as well as certain cancers.

The 2009 climate "endangerment finding" serves as the scientific and legal basis for many of EPA's rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from things like cars and coal plants. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said reversing the finding would be the largest deregulatory action in the country's history.

The new standards were supposed to reduce a kind of pollution at steel mills that isn't being controlled right now — leaks of toxic heavy metals and fine particles that don't come from a single point, like a smoke stack.

Power providers in Kentucky and Indiana say some federal restrictions on coal ash and greenhouse gas pollution should end.

Exposure to PFAS has been linked to problems with the immune system, developmental issues in children and cancer — the leading cause of death among firefighters.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced the 25 recipients of the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program last week. Neither Indiana nor its cities that applied got the money.