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Next year the city estimates it will replace 750 of the roughly 400,000 lead service lines connecting homes to street mains, according to slides prepared by the water department.
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Benefits for energy companies would come at the expense of more than 20 million Americans who drink water and eat fish from lakes and rivers polluted by coal plant discharges, documents show.
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EPA guts rules for coal plant toxic metal dumping, including one that provides electricity to Naperville, St. Charles, Batavia and other municipalities.
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Wednesday’s journey into the marsh featured the first cohort in 25 years that included captive-bred turtles from Brookfield Zoo.
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Residents on Lake Ontario find their homes and businesses at the anxious intersection of climate change, international regulations and COVID-19.
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Throughout the Great Lakes basin, about 70% of wetlands have vanished, and coastal areas in particular have lost 50% of their wetlands, mainly because of urban development and agriculture.
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Chicago-based company wants more money from customers as its ComEd subsidiary pays $200 million fine connected to Springfield bribery scheme.
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The chief target of the complaint is General Iron, a scrap shredder that plans to move from Lincoln Park on the North Side to a site on the Calumet River in the East Side neighborhood.
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Since 2001, biologists also have found 19 species in the waterways for the first time, only one of which wasn’t native to the area, the study found.
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The decision to retain an Obama-era regulation came less than a week after the Chicago area suffered its longest streak of bad air days in more than a decade.
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After missing out on cleaner air during the coronavirus lockdown, the Chicago area just suffered its longest streak of high-pollution days in more than a decade.
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A federal judge on Monday sided with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and ordered the Dakota Access pipeline to shut down until more environmental review is done.
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The state will allow General Iron to move across town, leaving Mayor Lori Lightfoot as the last hurdle for the controversial scrap shredder.
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Coronavirus restrictions and safety guidelines have motivated Illinois residents to seek the great outdoors, driving an 'unprecedented' surge in visitors to parks and other natural areas.
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As Chicagoans return to the lakefront and the 18-mile Lakefront Trail, which officially reopens in most areas Monday, they will notice waves lapping onto flooded pathways, disappearing beaches, submerged breakwaters and stone revetments unable to hold back the pulsating water.
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Collecting samples from municipal sewers on a regular basis could give cities early warnings about where the disease is spreading.
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Heavy rain overwhelms Chicago's $3 billion Deep Tunnel again, forcing sewage into Lake Michigan.
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Average daily soot concentrations in the region declined by only 1% last month compared with April 2019, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis. By contrast, soot levels in New York City dropped 28% last month.
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If the lakefront shutdown continues, and Monty and Rose decide to give Montrose a second shot, a nesting season without volleyball players and beachgoers could mean a better chance of fledgling success.
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Doctors and nurses protecting themselves from the virus could end up being exposed to a potent carcinogen and neurotoxin, according to the CDC and 3M.
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EPA staff condemns Trump back-to-work plan: ‘He wants to decimate us by sending us back into danger’
While much of the nation remains under stay-at-home orders to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump wants federal employees back in the office.
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Well before the administration suspended a range of EPA enforcement activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, the downturn under Trump has been striking.
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The coronavirus pandemic is touching all aspects of the American economy, including farmers throughout Illinois and the Midwest who are the lifeblood of rural communities and essential to the nation’s supply chain.
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A summary of the inspections details how ArcelorMittal and the lab botched the legally required documentation of when and where samples were taken, who handled them and which toxic chemicals were measured.
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American Rivers says development, crop drainage systems, levees, disparate floodplain management and climate change in general have made the Mississippi River less stable and more prone to flooding.
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President Trump's EPA still hasn’t told thousands of Americans about cancer risks from ethylene oxide
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Throughout the state, with the ramifications of coronavirus shutdowns changing life for Illinois communities large and small, the preparations for spring flooding, which ravaged large swaths of the state last year, have continued despite the abnormal circumstances.
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Researcher cites studies revealing how exposure to air pollution can trigger breathing problems and make it more difficult for people to fight off viruses and other infections.
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U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg ruled that “too many questions remain unanswered” about the pipeline’s safety and leak detection systems.
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Lake Superior is one of the fastest warming lakes in the world, which poses a threat to coastal towns that rely on winter tourism.