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Environment - More on: NIPSCO: Disposal of coal ash in NW Indiana safe [Updated]
Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 18, where Gitte Laasby of the Gary Post Tribune reported that NIPSCO is the only coal ash generator in NW Indiana and that it does not use coal ash ponds, Laasby reported in a...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on February 9, 2009 10:23 AM
Environment - NIPSCO: Disposal of coal ash in NW Indiana safe
After the recent news of a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee, Gitte Laasby and Erik Potter of the Gary Post-Tribune report today on coal ash generation and handling in NW Indiana. According to the story, NIPSCO is the only...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 18, 2009 01:33 PM
Environment - Still more on: "Spill renews debate over coal ash: Toxicity, slurry pond safety are questioned" [Updated]
Updating earlier ILB entries, including this latest from Dec. 30th, 2008, James Bruggers reports today in the Louisville Courier Journal. Here are some quotes from the long story, with emphasis added by the ILB:As Congress goes back to work this...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 7, 2009 12:07 PM
Environment - "Coal Ash Spill Revives Issue of Its Hazards"
That is the headline to a lengthy story published Dec. 24 in the NY Times. Some quotes:KINGSTON, Tenn. — What may be the nation’s largest spill of coal ash lay thick and largely untouched over hundreds of acres of land...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 26, 2008 08:19 AM
Ind. Decisions - "Permit for trash station near Mount Baldy upheld"
The Court of Appeals decision yesterday (Thursday) in the case of Board of Commissioners of LaPorte County, Board of Commissioners of Porter County, Town of Beverly Shores, et al v. Great Lakes Transfer, LLC, and IDEM (see ILB entry here)...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 13, 2008 08:37 AM
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 12 NFP)
For publication opinions today (2): In Board of Commissioners of LaPorte County, Board of Commissioners of Porter County, Town of Beverly Shores, et al v. Great Lakes Transfer, LLC, and IDEM, a 31-page opinion, the Court affirms the decisions of...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 12, 2008 10:51 AM
Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit issues one Indiana opinion
In U.S. v. Odell Corley (ND Ind., Judge Lozano), a 22-page opinion, Judge Rovner writes:The defendant-appellant Odell Corley was convicted of a number of charges including bank robbery and capital murder, and was sentenced to death on October 27,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 24, 2008 01:08 PM
Environment - "Environmentalists see victory in power plant waste ruling"
Mark Wilson of the Evansville Courier& Press reports:A permit has been overturned that would have allowed the owner of the Rockport River Terminal to use waste from a nearby power plant as construction fill near the town water supply. An...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 25, 2006 11:15 AM
Environment - Kentucky gas/oil boom; Pines transfer station appeal
Kentucky oil and gas boom. "State's oil, gas boom spurring concerns: Critics push for tougher rules to protect people, environment" is the headline to an extended story today by James Bruggers in the Louisville Courier Journal. From a section of...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 27, 2005 10:08 AM
Environment - Beverly Shores/Town of Pines hire Ice Miller for appeal of IDEM transfer station permit
The Michigan City News-Dispatch reports today:BEVERLY SHORES - The town of Beverly Shores agreed Monday night to join the town of Pines in securing an Indianapolis law firm to oppose a waste-transfer station on the far west side of LaPorte...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 23, 2005 03:07 PM
Environment - Several recent stories
Infectious medical waste - The Gary Post-Tribune has a story today reporting that the Lake county solid waste district will have a public hearing Aug. 18 on whether Lake County need a plant that processes infectious waste. Some quotes: The...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 9, 2005 02:06 PM
Environment - Coal ash is an issue again, this time in Marion County
"Critics: IPL's plan to use ash as fill is risky: Utility disputes the charge that putting coal ash in a flood plain could foul waterways," is the headline to this story today in the Indianapolis Star. Some quotes from the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 6, 2004 06:55 AM
Environment - Disposal of coal ash in strip mines questioned
"EPA will review coal ash disposal: Southwest Indiana residents ask agency to rule on putting waste back into mines," is the headline to this front-page story this morning in the Indianapolis Star. The lead:Trucks rolling through the hills of southwest...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 25, 2004 08:17 AM
Environment - Town of Pines (Indiana) groundwater contamination the subject of national report
"Report uses Pines as example of waste problem: Environmental group says federal enforcement needed to ensure safe disposal," is the headline to this story today in the NWI Times. Some quotes:THE PINES -- Two decades of unsafe disposal of coal...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 22, 2004 07:55 AM
Environment - Followup on Coal Ash; More on Mercury
The Gary Post-Tribune has a lengthly story today on the contamination of water wells in the Town of Pines, titled "Arsenic, boron, lead, manganese." (Unfortunately, the Tribune takes down its stories at the end of each day, so few of...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on February 15, 2004 07:59 PM