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The EPA’s wastewater standards for coal plants date back to the 1980s and went decades without major updates, even as coal plants continued to use rivers and lakes as part of their waste-handling systems.

Statewide

Indiana coal plants benefit from EPA pause

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.

The Indiana Civil Rights Commission was created in 1961 under Governor Matthew Welsh and is one of the oldest state civil rights agencies in the country.

Statewide

IN Democrats challenge Gov. Braun's Civil Rights Commission pick

Joe Ulery - Public News Service

Indiana Democrats are focused on the state's Civil Rights Commission after Gov. Mike Braun appointed Philip Clay as the agency’s new executive director.

The CKC program awarded $66 million total nationwide, with individual grants ranging from $850,000 to $3 million over five years.

Health

IN rural care gets federal funding lift

Joe Ulery - Public News Service

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.