'Devastating' cuts to EPA could hurt Hoosier health and Indiana's environment, advocates say

The health of Hoosiers and Indiana’s environment may bear some of the costs of massive cuts the Trump administration is calling for at the U.S. EPA, according to a former agency official and local advocates.

Indiana already ranks dead last in a U.S. News and World Report ranking of state's natural environment based examining air and water quality as well as overall pollution. The state also has some of the most polluted waterways in the country and the largest number of toxic coal ash ponds of any other state.