While we know how PCE and TCE can harm people working with them, we don’t know much about what happens when you’re exposed to small amounts over time — like residents in Martinsville.

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule this week to protect kids from lead paint in homes and child care centers. Kids exposed to lead can have trouble learning, behavioral issues and poor kidney function.

A cohort of 16 northwest Indiana residents hope to bring cleaner steel to the Region. This comes as U.S. Steel and Cleveland Cliffs plan to extend the life of their coal-based blast furnaces.

You may not have heard of sulfur hexafluoride also known as SF6, but its one of the most potent greenhouse gases. Last year, a metal recycling company in Anderson emitted more of it than any other industrial facility in the country.

TCE is used in cleaning products, degreasers, brake cleaners and tire repair sealants. The EPA said exposure to the chemical has been known to cause cancer as well as harm the brain and reproductive system and there are many safer alternatives available.

The fire at the former plastics recycling business in April displaced more than 1,000 people and sent harmful smoke and debris into the air.

Its been about seven years since the Environmental Protection Agency found a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment and spices was a lot more harmful than the agency originally thought. But the agency still hasnt finalized a rule limiting the chemical at commercial sterilizers like Cook Group Inc. in Ellettsville.

Utilities, industries and state regulators are all concerned about a proposed federal rule to nearly eliminate carbon emissions at power plants. It was one of many topics at a legislative summer study committee last week.

Most of the decline comes from coal plants closing. Power plants in Indiana contribute more than half of all greenhouse gas emissions in the state; a quarter comes from steelmakers like U.S. Steel and Cleveland Cliffs.

Both advocates and the Environmental Protection Agency have raised environmental justice concerns about the plant's location.