Indiana manufacturers want to continue to be able to use certain types of toxic PFAS. A state House bill, HB 1399, aims to change the definition of PFAS under Indiana law to exclude the specific chemicals they want to use.

The Merom coal plant in Sullivan was supposed to shut down in May of this year. Now that a coal mining subsidiary has purchased the plant, activists say it could run indefinitely and needs to be held accountable for water, air, and solid waste violations.

The new guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognize that not every person who gets exposed to one cancer-causing chemical or multiple will get the same type of cancer.

Kari Rhinehart, co-founder of the Franklin group If It Was Your Child, will speak at the event at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management said proposed changes at the Metalworking Lubricants Co. may reduce pollution. But residents are skeptical anything will change.

The EPA said monitoring will continue at the three sites, which were contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

The agency suspects the water pollution at the Martinsville Superfund site mostly came from a local laundry and dry cleaning business in the 1980s.

Indiana releases the most toxic pollution per square mile and the state's top three emitters are steel companies.

The EPA's proposal chiefly aims to clean up high levels of trichloroethene, or TCE, a chemical the federal agency has classified as a carcinogen

When a coal plant shuts down, the loss of jobs and tax revenue can be devastating for the towns that host them. The state is grappling with how to help workers and local governments in Indiana with that transition.