Rebecca Thiele

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.

A federal court recently blocked an Indiana law that allows state utilities to get dibs on interstate power line projects — saying it violates interstate commerce laws.

Ethanol isn’t as climate-friendly as biofuels made from other sources. But corn may still hold a new opportunity for Indiana farmers.

Sustainable aviation fuels could create a new market for Indiana farmers. And that opportunity can’t come soon enough.

The drop in emissions from Indiana industries is significant because some companies reduced their hours or shut down during the pandemic lockdown.