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Tag: pollution

Map reveals widespread lead pollution in Chicago backyards, parkways

Map reveals widespread lead pollution in Chicago backyards, parkways

— March 28, 2022

In backyards and community gardens across Chicago, growers tend fruit and vegetable crops as diverse as the city they live in. Most have one thing in common — lead lurking in the…

  • New rules aim to tighten coal ash pollution regulations

    New rules aim to tighten coal ash pollution regulations

    — May 21, 2021

    SPRINGFIELD – After years of work by environmental activists to push action on the issue, the Illinois Pollution Control Board has issued findings and recommendations related to the…

  • Illinois Senate passes coal ash removal guidelines

    Illinois Senate passes coal ash removal guidelines

    — May 12, 2019

    SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Senate advanced a bill Thursday, May 9 that is aimed at ensuring safe closure of toxic coal ash pits left behind by power plants. “When you burn coal…

  • Lawmakers take aim at plastic pollution with package of bills

    Lawmakers take aim at plastic pollution with package of bills

    — February 23, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD – In an effort to tackle the growing problem of plastic pollution, a group of state lawmakers from both legislative chambers touted a series of bills Tuesday that would…

  • School buses seen as vital pollution-reduction step

    School buses seen as vital pollution-reduction step

    — June 12, 2018

    This story is part of Chronicle Media’s ongoing series looking at how funds from the Volkswagen settlement could be used to affect Illinois air quality. Michelle Hoppe Villegas uses…

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