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A coalition of environmental organizations say Indiana pollution rules don’t meet Clean Water Act standards and are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to intervene. The Hoosier Environmental Council, the Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter and the Environmental Law & Policy Center have submitted a petition that asks the EPA to correct serious flaws in the Indiana water pollution control program, administered by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. Indiana has failed to adopt “antidegradation” rules that are a fundamental part of the Clean Water Act, designed to prevent new or expanded sources of pollution from degrading Indiana’s rivers, lakes and streams. Though this requirement has been part of the Clean Water Act for decades, Indiana has never implemented it. The petition coalition held a conference call and WFHB was there to listen as we hear from the Sierra Club’s Bowden Quinn and Steve Francis, Rae Schnapp from the Hoosier Environmental Council, and Albert Ettinger, senior attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center. EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live. Each program features timely eco-related headline news, a feature interview or event recording, and a calendar of events of interest to the environmentally conscious.