Environmental justice

The South Bend Redevelopment Commission Thursday will consider earmarking $1.3 million to demolish the long-abandoned South Bend Range factory — if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will clean up of the site.

Because it sits in a neighborhood with many people who are low-income or of color, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had said the South Bend Range site cleanup could qualify for a new environmental justice program that Trump is eliminating.

Unlike some other grants, state and local governments will have to work with community-based nonprofits to get that money — and some will go to those nonprofits directly.

A state House committee voted to extend a task force charged with developing energy policy for Indiana for another two years. But some lawmakers are…

Members of the Indiana 2020 Two-Way asked us questions about the community impacts of contamination and pollution. To join, text “elections” to 73224.…