Indiana Blog Review

Sustained Coverage

Thomas Kemp has a roundup of news on sustainability efforts in East Central Indiana.

They Give Awards to Lawyers?

Big Eastern blogger Marty Lucas has been named the Hoosier Environmental Council's 'Litigator of the Year.'

(ht: Thomas Kemp)

Anthropomorphic Trees

Fort Wayne Indiana etc. found a graphic depiction of opposition to logging old growth forests.

I'm not sure whether this is not safe for work . . . but I'm sure it'd be an amusing fight if anyone complained.

At least we aren't No. 1

Indiana ranks 4th in the U.S. for health risks associated with polluted air.  Poor air quality often impacts poor and minority neighborhoods, according to the AP report.

Masson's Blog writes:

This report brings me to an intellectual hobby horse of mine: the idea that the market will work better the more business costs are internalized into the business transaction. In this case, particularly, I'm thinking specifically of the tendency of pollution costs of producing products to be externalized to the population at large, rather than incorporated into the cost of producing the product and, therefore, into the price for purchasing the product. The market will work better the more costs are reflected in price.

Not Good

Indiana Law Blog: State official says gas station too expensive to clean up.

ALSO: A roundup of decisions issued by the Indiana Court of Appeals today.

Environmental Questions

Indiana Law Blog: who is to blame for high levels of ozone?

In the Water

Kemplog continues to cover the controversies surrounding confined animal feeding operations (CAFO) and their affect on the local water supply here, here and here.

Bird's Eye View

Indiana Law Blog points out this shot of the NW Indiana lakeshore looking toward Chicago, from the Munster (Northwest Indiana) Times.

MORE: Deliberate Chaos posts a satellite photo of the shoreline from GoogleMaps.