SYRACUSE — Hoosier Environmental Council and Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation will present a Kosciusko County Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Workshop from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9. The event will be held in the Kiwanis Room of the Syracuse Community Center, North Long Drive, Syracuse. A free light breakfast will be provided for …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS – House Bill 1494, proposed by State Rep. Dave Wolkins of Winona Lake, was passed by the House of Representatives in the Indiana General Assembly and was assigned to the Senate Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure.

INDIANAPOLIS — As summer begins, the Hoosier Environmental Council, Indiana’s largest statewide environmental educator and advocate, is reminding Hoosiers of some simple steps to keep fishing and trips to the lake safe and healthy. Indiana is blessed with many beautiful lakes and rivers, but some are not healthy for outdoor recreation. If you are going to …read more.

By MARIANNE HOLLAND Hoosier Environmental Council ELKHART — People in a working-class Elkhart community, who endured 11 years of hazardous fires, constant dust, acrid smoke, and obnoxious odors from the dangerous practices of an industrial waste processor, VIM Recycling, have been awarded $50,568,750 in a class action lawsuit. “This judgment puts into perspective the enormous …read more.

Members of the Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation, and others interested in the impact factory farms have on communities and the local watershed, spent most of the day Saturday listening to statistics and discussing strategies for minimizing the effects of such operations. Amelia Vohs, legal and water policy associate for the Hoosier Environmental Council, and Kim …read more.

The Hoosier Environmental Council  announces its third of four monthly, statewide online legislative seminars at 12 p.m. EST Friday, March 29. The hour-long webinar will focus on highly controversial legislation that would significantly limit the ability to hold polluting industrial livestock operations accountable. The webinar will feature HEC senior policy staff. HEC will discuss the …read more.