How should the state use the money from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act? There are a few different viewpoints.
Instead, their focus is all on “economic development” and continues to be influenced by big business that wants to build a, clear cut forests for timber sales and build unnecessary new terrain highways like the Mid-States Corridor.
and entertains efforts to allow “renewable” natural gas facilities that foster more dependence on fossil fuel energy versus true renewable energy efforts.
Mark Nowotarski, an environmental and climate advocate, is a retired business strategist and active member of the Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter, Hoosier Environmental Council, Indiana Forest Alliance and the Coalition Against the Mid-States Corridor.
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