Environment

Electric bills for Indianapolis area residents were expected to go up by more than $17 a month. Now, that increase could be less than $10 a month.

Weather forecasting would be nearly impossible without radar. The latest Science Behind the Forecast explains why.

In the latest round of testing for forever chemicals, the Kentucky Division of Water discovered high rates in two communities. Now, municipal leaders are working with state officials to try and fix it.

Kentucky’s state government and some of the state’s largest cities are both applying for hundreds of millions of dollars to support the growth of solar for low-income and disadvantaged communities.

Gov. Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency in Rockcastle County after a train derailment Wednesday afternoon. The state’s Emergency Operations Center has been activated to Level 4.

New conservation efforts are protecting the eastern gold eagle from environmental threats for the first time, according to a plan published by the Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group last week.

Rural communities in Indiana can get nearly $1.5 million in energy efficiency and conservation grants. The state rolled out the new, two-year grant program this week. It passes along money given to Indiana to communities that weren’t eligible for a federal grant.

The inside story of how AppHarvest’s indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.

Utility regulators approved the retirement of two coal-fired generating units and deferred the retirement of two others last week. Here’s how a law that makes it more difficult to retire fossil fuel generating units affected plans for new power generation.

The threats Kentuckians face from climate change are growing. So long as there are greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, warming is virtually guaranteed to continue harming human health, the economy, infrastructure and food systems, according to the latest federal report on climate change released Tuesday.