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Costly Deep Tunnel flooding project can’t handle Chicago area’s severe storms...
Hours before heavy rains swamped Chicago and Cook County suburbs on July 2, the region’s $3.8 billion flood-control project appeared ready as can be to bottle up storm runoff. The Deep Tunnel’s massive...
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EPA proposes adding Acme Steel plant site on Southeast Side to Superfund program
All that is left of the former Acme Steel plant on Chicago’s Southeast Side are a pair of soot-covered smokestacks and a few other graffiti-riddled ruins that draw curious passersby to the weed-strewn...
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Mayor Brandon Johnson announces plans to address pollution burdens in...
A year after federal investigators outlined how Chicago funnels industrial polluters into Black and Latino neighborhoods, Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed Monday to overhaul zoning, planning and land-use...
View ArticleTrump Tower, one of the largest users of Chicago River water, sued again by...
Donald Trump’s skyscraper along the Chicago River is still sucking in massive amounts of water without a valid permit, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office alleged Thursday in a lawsuit that...
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New regulations would barely dent the massive amounts of toxic pollution NW...
Kimmie Gordon grew up in a Gary neighborhood sandwiched between two of the biggest steel mills in the world. Her stepfather worked at another northwest Indiana mill along the southern tip of Lake...
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Chicago to get $336 million loan from EPA to replace 30,000 lead water pipes
As recently as 2018 Chicago officials denied the nation’s third largest city has a widespread problem with brain-damaging lead in drinking water, even though testing kits distributed by the city...
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Soot pollution from coal-fired power plants is more deadly than soot from...
Burning coal to generate electricity is on the way out in the United States, but the nation’s long dependence on the fossil fuel took a devastating toll. A new study determined for the first time that...
View ArticleBiden EPA proposes requirements for utilities to remove toxic lead water...
President Joe Biden’s administration is moving to require utilities to replace every toxic lead pipe connecting homes to water mains during the next decade, though Chicago and several other cities...
View ArticleChicago hears from Cincinnati and Newark officials on how to speed up...
With Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration projecting it will take 40 years and up to $12 billion to replace toxic lead water pipes throughout the city, aldermen are pressing for changes to speed up...
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EPA’s proposed limits on soot would lead to cleaner factories and vehicles in...
New limits on lung-damaging soot proposed by President Joe Biden’s administration would effectively require cleaner factories, power plants and vehicles in Chicago and several other urban industrial...
View ArticleIllinois agrees to tougher oversight of polluters in low-income communities,...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration vowed Friday to take a more rigorous look at polluters before allowing them to operate or expand in low-income communities. The policy change resolves a civil rights...
View ArticleIllinois moves to limit toxic forever chemicals contaminating wells...
Illinois is moving to join 10 other states that limit toxic forever chemicals in underground sources of water. Regulations unveiled Wednesday by the Illinois Pollution Control Board are intended to...
View ArticleEPA moves to set stricter rules for Sterigenics, other sterilization...
Nearly two decades after federal scientists concluded ethylene oxide is far more dangerous than previously thought, President Joe Biden’s administration is moving to dramatically reduce emissions from...
View ArticleBiden EPA limits toxic forever chemicals in drinking water for the first time
Following through on a campaign promise, President Joe Biden’s administration is limiting toxic forever chemicals in drinking water for the first time, a sweeping policy change intended to protect...
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Legislation would ban most uses of toxic forever chemicals within a decade
Despite widespread understanding of the health and environmental damages caused by forever chemicals, manufacturers continue to win federal approval to synthesize new versions of the toxic compounds...
View ArticleBiden EPA declares two forever chemicals are hazardous, making it easier to...
For the first time polluters could be forced to clean up sites contaminated with a pair of forever chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave the...
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