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KCBX petroleum coke storage facility shown here Jan. 13, 2014. The firm announced Tuesday that it will build a $120 million structure along the Calumet River and surround it with a grassy field in an attempt to make the site more attractive.

Koch-owned firm unveils plan to cover dusty petcoke piles in Chicago

June 18, 2018 at 3:26 a.m.

Despite Mayor Rahm Emanuel's vow to rid Chicago of dusty piles of petroleum coke, a company is moving forward with plans to enclose towering mounds of the refinery byproduct on...

Views of Chicago's City Hall photographed Feb 7, 2012.(Nancy Stone/ baiduhai) B581881480Z.1 OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, NEW YORK TIMES OUT, CHICAGO OUT, NO DIGITAL MANIPULATION...

Last Chicago City Council meeting of year: What’s on the agenda

August 18, 2019 at 6:32 p.m.

The Chicago City Council's last meeting of the year Wednesday is expected to include approval of revised taxi regulations, delay on a controversial ethanol requirement and the settlement of more...

Beemsterboer Slag Corp. has opted to sell its storage terminal along the Calumet River at 106th Street rather than continue to fight a series of lawsuits and regulatory actions.

Petcoke operator driven out of Chicago

June 17, 2018 at 7:52 a.m.

Seven months after Mayor Rahm Emanuel vowed to make it too costly to store dusty petroleum coke in Chicago, one of the operators apparently has caved to the legal and...

Judge validates new flame retardant rules

May 12, 2019 at 10:53 p.m.

Consumers nationwide are closer to being able to buy furniture made without toxic, ineffective flame retardants after a California judge on Friday threw out a legal challenge from the chemical...

Chemical industry fights for flame retardants

May 12, 2019 at 10:46 p.m.

As furniture makers move to phase out toxic, ineffective flame retardants, the chemical industry is waging an aggressive last-ditch campaign to preserve a lucrative market that reaches into virtually every...

The Great Lakes Solutions chemical plant in El Dorado, Ark., where the flame retardant chemical Firemaster 550 is made.

Study: Flame retardants found in moms, kids

August 23, 2019 at 11:16 a.m.

One flame retardant is linked to cancer and was voluntarily taken out of children's pajamas in the 1970s after researchers discovered it mutated DNA. The other was touted as an...

A street in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago is flooded from the severe storms that pummeled the Chicago area Monday.

Storm forces officials to open Lake Michigan locks

May 21, 2019 at 12:07 p.m.

The hard rain that pummeled Chicago overnight forced officials to open the locks and sluice gates that protect Lake Michigan, releasing a noxious mix of sewage and storm runoff into...

Noxious sewage released into Lake Michigan after storm

June 17, 2018 at 1:06 p.m.

The hard rain that pummeled Chicago overnight forced officials to open the locks and sluice gates that protect Lake Michigan, releasing a noxious mix of sewage and storm runoff into...

EPA finds rail yards transfer pollutants as well as freight

June 17, 2018 at 1:22 p.m.

From the sidewalk in front of her apartment in Cicero, Yolanda Foster can see long freight trains and an endless line of trucks rumbling day and night through the sprawling...

Diesel pollution from locomotives and the vehicles that move freight containers between trains and trucks. wafts into the neighborhood north of the BSNF Cicero Intermodal Facility.

EPA finds rail yards transfer pollutants as well as freight

November 3, 2021 at 8:56 p.m.

From the sidewalk in front of her apartment in Cicero, Yolanda Foster can see long freight trains and an endless line of trucks rumbling day and night through the sprawling...

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