Melissa A. Hamer: Water in Indiana: Rights, wells, and a thirst for regulation
Fast-forward to today, and the idea of just taking water because you can mostly has disappeared into a tangle of laws.
Melissa A. Hamer
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Melissa Hamer: A year loaded with environmental regulatory changes
Between Supreme Court rewrites of familiar statutes, extended methane deadlines, and Indiana’s new stormwater and water-pipeline rules, our regulated community spent 2025 chasing certainty.
Hamer: Commercial property environmental due diligence
Many new property owners and lessors also aren’t aware of — and don’t budget for — the duty to perform ongoing obligations in order to keep whatever legal defenses they may have from their environmental site assessment.