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Environmental groups are suing to force Illinois to adopt ethics rules for regulators involved in enforcing the Clean Air Act.

Lawsuit seeks to force Illinois to adopt ethics rules for environmental regulators

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

For nearly four decades, Illinois failed to adopt federally mandated ethics rules intended to prevent states from appointing environmental regulators with conflicts of interest involving the Clean Air Act. In...

EPA probes pollution from scrap yard near potential Amazon HQ2 site in gentrifying Clybourn Corridor

May 23, 2019 at 12:20 a.m.

One of the last industrial facilities in the fast-gentrifying Clybourn Corridor looks more like a set from "Mad Max" than the glittering, tech-friendly utopia portrayed in videos promoting Chicago for...

Angelina Homo, 4, looks at the new Barbie doll she received for Christmas.

Christians from Iraq finally celebrate holiday in America

December 17, 2018 at 10:51 p.m.

A year ago, Milad Homo feared his family never would be able to celebrate Christmas in America. The Assyrian Christians had waited more than three years for a chance to...

Cathy Stepp, secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, speaks in her office on Jan. 13, 2017, in Madison, Wis. Stepp on Dec. 19 was put in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency region that oversees Illinois and four other states.

Trump EPA pick for Chicago office cut enforcement, scrapped climate change information in Wisconsin

May 23, 2019 at 12:18 a.m.

The Trump administration's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency's Midwest office is a former Wisconsin state official who rolled back enforcement of anti-pollution laws, reduced funding for scientific research...

U.S. Steel didn’t test for toxic metal after spill into Lake Michigan tributary

May 23, 2019 at 12:16 a.m.

U.S. Steel failed to test a Lake Michigan tributary for highly toxic hexavalent chromium after blue liquid "with visible solids" poured out of one of the company's northwest Indiana plants...

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's Thornton Composite Reservoir in South Holland is part of the deep tunnel project, seen here in 2015.

McCook Reservoir to open soon, holding sewage and runoff until storms pass

May 23, 2019 at 12:15 a.m.

More than four decades after officials broke ground for one of the nation's most expensive public works projects, Chicago and Cook County are about to find out if a giant...

Chicago intends to sue U.S. Steel after 2 toxic spills this year, mayor says

May 31, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday threatened to sue U.S. Steel after one of the company’s northwest Indiana plants spilled toxic metal into a waterway less than 20 miles away from...

<p>The Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk in Portage, Ind., shown here on April 12, 2017, was closed after a spill of hexavalent chromium by the U.S. Steel Midwest Plant.</p>

U.S. Steel dumps more toxic chromium near Lake Michigan, faces lawsuit

May 23, 2019 at 12:10 a.m.

Six months after U.S. Steel dumped a plume of a toxic metal into a Lake Michigan tributary, the company quietly reported another spill at the same northwest Indiana plant and...

Air quality monitors attached outside a building temporarily in the South Loop on Oct. 2, 2017.

Citizen devices tracking Chicago’s pollution hot spots

May 23, 2019 at 12:09 a.m.

With an array of palm-size devices strapped across her chest and connected wirelessly to her smartphone, Gail Merritt discovered the air in the South Loop might be a lot dirtier...

Freight cars transport Wyoming coal to an Illinois Dynegy coal energy plant on Dec. 10, 2012.

Pollution could increase as Rauner EPA moves to rescue coal plants

May 22, 2019 at 11:58 p.m.

In a move that could lead to dirtier air in Chicago and other downwind communities as far away as New York, Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration is pushing to overhaul stringent...

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