Rebecca Thiele

The number of communities budgeting or writing grants for sustainability nearly doubled in the past three years. More than half of cities adopted ordinances to prevent new construction in floodplains.

The number of clean energy jobs in Indiana barely grew last year. That includes jobs in sectors like energy efficiency, wind, solar, electric vehicles and biofuels.

Dicamba is known to drift off of fields where it’s applied and damage neighboring crops.

The Biden administration set up a $7,500 credit for new EVs and a $4,000 tax credit for used ones, with certain restrictions. The “One Big Beautiful Bill” ends those tax credits Sept. 30.

The regional grid that serves Indiana needs more reliable energy, fast — so its grid operator is letting some power sources speed through its connection process.

Lower-income Hoosiers are more likely to live in older, less energy-efficient homes that use more power. Advocates say putting solar on these homes lowers their energy bills and reduces the need for more power plants — which all electric utility customers pay for.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management released the state’s initial climate plan last year with the help of a grant from the Biden administration.

Even amid an ongoing federal pause in electric vehicle charger funding, Indiana has state money for that people can use now.

Nearly half of all the solar installed in Indiana came online last year, mostly from the state’s utilities.

Indiana is expected to add a lot of solar power in the next five years — roughly equal to more than five Hoover Dams. Most of that will be on the ground — something some rural Hoosiers don’t like. There could be another option — put solar on hundreds of millions of square feet of unused space on top of big box stores and warehouses.

Experts say the safest part of a home during a tornado is a basement. But plenty of Indiana residents don’t have one and not as many new homes are being built with basements.

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget would cut more than half of the Environmental Protection Agency’s funding.

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signed two executive orders Wednesday. One aims to reduce environmental “over-regulation” to help businesses grow and another to cut environmental justice out of decision-making.

The Clean Water Indiana Program usually provides matching dollars to help farmers and landowners implement practices like cover cropping and no-till agriculture — to keep the soil from eroding and getting into local waterways.