Forty years after the goalpost set by the federal government under the Clean Water Act, Indiana couldn’t be farther from the finish line. Indiana maintains the most polluted waterways out of any state in the country. Of the 62,500 miles of rivers and streams in the state, more than 24,000 miles (38%) are impaired by pollutants. Read the full story by The Herald Bulletin.
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