Efforts to send a message that Indiana is open for business to renewables came to an abrupt stop on Tuesday night. A bill that would have established some statewide standards for wind and solar projects but was amended to grandfather in counties more restrictive ordinances died on the Senate floor.
Despite significant amendments that had House Bill 1381 doing a 180 degree turn and handing more authority back to local governments, local control concerns still lingered, according to the bill s senate sponsor Sen. Mark Messmer, R-Jasper.
On the Senate floor Tuesday night, after withdrawing the bill, Messmer said that handling the bill was akin to being in a hostage negotiation with a schizophrenic. He said he gave local officials everything they wanted and asked for, but the captor still shot the person at the end of the ordeal anyway.
Like a hostage negotiation : Indiana bill on renewable energy standards dies after pushback
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Environmental News For The Week Ending 03 April 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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There hasn t been much change in the trajectory of either US Covid metric: new cases continue to increase at a modest pace, while US Covid deaths continue to fall. New cases of Covid confirmed over the week ending April 3rd were 5.9% higher that those confirmed over the week ending March 27th, and 15.9% higher than those of the week ending March 20th, while US Covid deaths during the week ending April 3rd were 12.2% lower than the prior week, and down 74.7% from the peak week in late January.