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GUEST COMMENTARY: 2011 was good year environmentally
Last year was a very good year environmentally for Northwest Indiana. Not the opening line you expected? Let's take a trip down memory lane.
Future green: Who will carry on the legacy of the region's environmental activists?
Charlotte Read said she was shocked to recently read of her retirement from Save the Dunes in a local paper. "I've left the board, but my interest in Save the Dunes and the national lakeshore is probably as strong as ever," she said. "I simply ran out of terms."
Saving the monarchs: Long live the butterfly kings
The hushed fluttering of millions of monarch butterfly wings is in danger of being silenced.
Area way stations wait to welcome monarchs
The front line of the effort to save the monarch butterfly from extinction is the creation of monarch way stations where the insects can breed and feed.
NIPSCO settles alleged environmental violations with feds
The U.S. EPA and NIPSCO have reached a settlement involving alleged violations of the Clean Air Act that mandates the installation of $600 million in pollution control equipment at power plants and $9.5 million more for environmental projects across the region.
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