Stevenson Swanson

Some recyclables would be banned from landfills, and fees for dumping hazardous waste would triple under a package of environmental proposals that Gov. Jim Edgar will push in the General...

Turf battles are breaking out in suburbia. Concerned that pesticides used in schools and on parks and playgrounds pose health threats to their children and themselves, irate homemakers across the...

When a tanker carrying toxic chemicals overturned on a west-suburban expressway Thursday, thousands of morning commuters thought the worst of it was the rush-hour disruption. But the eight-hour delay in...

The proposed blue-bag recycling system for Chicago came one step closer to becoming a reality Tuesday when it was approved by a City Council committee. By a 2-1 vote, the...

Lake Michigan water is softer than the well water that Du Page residents use now, but is it soft enough? Makers and sellers of water-softening equipment hope to convince people...

A state appellate court has cleared the way for some construction work to begin at the site of a bitterly controversial proposed balefill that a group of suburbs wants to...

Local restrictions on pesticide use could proliferate following a U.S. Supreme Court decision Friday that said federal law does not block stricter municipal regulations on the chemicals. Although a federal...

Under a proposed federal regulation, industries would have to pay hefty fees to get a permit to emit pollutants into the air-but they would be able to raise the amount...

An explosion last week at a Southeast Side hazardous-waste incinerator occurred because a chemical was not properly identified before it was burned, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday. That...

A plan to clear trees and move earth at a balefill site in northwest Cook County despite a major setback this week is tantamount to Saddam Hussein`s deliberate Persian Gulf...