Environmental Victories Come In Very Hard-won Small Steps
The board had convened to consider adoption of ground water rules that, for the first time in the state's history, would have established numerical standards for underground water pollution. The board had been authorized to adopt such rules by a 1989 law passed by the Indiana General Assembly.
Under the circumstances, one would think any regulation so sweeping and important to the lives of millions of rural Indiana residents would be a good one - one that might safeguard the drinking water of those who use wells from the encroaching