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River advocates worry that weakened wetland protections in Indiana will mean more trouble in the Ohio and, ultimately, the Mississippi — both of which already struggle with water quality issues.
Clear Creek flows roughly in the west-south-westerly direction across the campus of Indiana University, passing in front of its major landmark, the Indiana Memorial Union. On campus, the creek was formerly known as the Jordan River , named so after David Starr Jordan , the seventh president of Indiana University and later the first president of ...
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management was created an act passed by the Indiana General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Robert D. Orr in 1986. This act moved pollution control efforts (Indiana Air Pollution Control Board, Indiana Stream Pollution Control Board and the Indiana Environmental Management Board) from the Indiana State Department of Health to the new agency on ...
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"Rising temperatures can harm air quality and amplify existing threats to human health. Warmer weather can increase the production of ground-level ozone, a pollutant that causes lung and heart problems. Ozone also harms plants. In rural Indiana, ozone levels are high enough to significantly reduce yields of soybeans and winter wheat.
Wildfires also may be affecting water quality in some of the region’s most pristine lakes, according to a study published in August by researchers at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Eutrophication or undesirable algae, [14] which causes persistent water quality problems, such as nuisance algal blooms, decreased water clarity and decrease of dissolved oxygen in bottom waters [15] Degradation of fish and wildlife populations [ 14 ] These levels are set based on what would be expected from the amount and quality of suitable ...
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