Bills to protect the environment and Indiana citizens keep popping up year after year. And over and over again, the bills have died.
While advocates and some lawmakers say these bills are important to solve environmental problems, others question at what cost. Throughout the years, some groups and legislators have raised concerns over the potential impacts additional laws could have on industry throughout the state. Such pushback and lack of urgency has kept many environment-related bills stagnant.
Here are seven environmental topics that have continued to fall short in the Indiana General Assembly.The majority of Indiana’s electricity has, and continues to, come from coal. When coal is burned, it produces a byproduct: coal ash. That needs to be stored somewhere, and Indiana has more coal ash ponds than any other state in the country.
Indiana is among the worst states in the country when it comes to cleaning up its toxic coal ash pits,found. Extensive IndyStar coverage has detailed the issues and compliance failures at 16 leaking ash disposal sites across the state. Bills have been proposed to move Indiana in that direction and help the state establish goals and requirements around cleaning up coal ash since 2021, but they haven't received a hearing. Utilities have maintained they are following federal guidelines, and the industry has said"clean closure" — similar to what's proposed in the bills — can be very expensive.
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