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An aerial view shows industry along the Calumet River in Chicago, including the S.H. Bell storage facility, on Feb. 17, 2017.

Manganese pollution in Southeast Side yards prompts new EPA probe

December 13, 2018 at 9:20 a.m.

Already concerned about high levels of toxic manganese in the air near a Southeast Side company, federal environmental regulators announced Thursday they are significantly escalating their investigation by searching for...

EPA discovers another lead-contaminated neighborhood near East Chicago

May 23, 2019 at 12:47 a.m.

Almost every time federal officials test a yard in northwest Indiana, they find staggering levels of brain-damaging lead in the soil. The latest toxic neighborhoods uncovered by the U.S. Environmental...

Foxconn's new 20-million-square-foot electronics plant will be built in Mount Pleasant, Wis. A smog standard exemption given to most of southeast Wisconsin will save Foxconn from having to make expensive improvements.

EPA chief Pruitt overrules staff, gives Wisconsin’s Walker, Foxconn big break on smog

May 23, 2019 at 12:47 a.m.

The Trump administration on Tuesday exempted most of southeast Wisconsin from the latest federal limits on lung-damaging smog pollution, delivering a political victory to Gov. Scott Walker as he makes...

Encuentran plomo dañino para el cerebro en el agua de hogares de Chicago

December 14, 2018 at 12:59 p.m.

Un análisis del baiduhai mostró que se detectó plomo en el agua de la mayoría de las viviendas examinada en los últimos dos años. El 70% de los 2,797...

Steam rises from northwest Indiana steel mills viewed from 57th Street Beach in Chicago.

Chicago, surfers group challenge federal settlement on Lake Michigan chromium spills

May 23, 2019 at 12:44 a.m.

Chicago and a band of Great Lakes surfers are challenging a federal legal settlement with U.S. Steel, accusing the Trump administration of failing to punish the steelmaker harshly enough for...

City crews work on a water main project on Chicago's Northwest Side on April 2, 2018.

Judge says Chicago’s lead pipes cause contamination but throws out class-action lawsuit

May 23, 2019 at 12:43 a.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration has fended off a lawsuit demanding the removal of lead pipes connecting homes to the public water system, but the judge who threw out the case...

Brain-damaging lead found in tap water in hundreds of homes tested across Chicago, results show

June 14, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

Amid renewed national attention to the dangers of lead poisoning, hundreds of Chicagoans have taken the city up on its offer of free testing kits to determine if they are...

Brain-damaging lead found in tap water in hundreds of homes tested across Chicago, results show

June 14, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

Amid renewed national attention to the dangers of lead poisoning, hundreds of Chicagoans have taken the city up on its offer of free testing kits to determine if they are...

Illinois’ only national scenic river named one of the most threatened waterways in U.S.

May 23, 2019 at 12:42 a.m.

Alarmed by toxic coal ash seeping into Illinois' only national scenic river, a conservation group Tuesday declared it one of the nation's most threatened waterways. Orange- and purple-hued muck often...

<p>A view of Indiana steel mills from Promontory Point in Chicago's Hyde Park during subzero temperatures on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018</p>

U.S. Steel to pay nearly $900,000 to settle lawsuit over chromium spill into Lake Michigan

December 14, 2018 at 9:44 a.m.

U.S. Steel agreed Monday to pay nearly $900,000 to settle a complaint filed after one of the company’s plants spilled toxic chromium into a Lake Michigan tributary last year. The...

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