The Illinois Pollution Control Board proposed an alternative to governor’s call for easing emission rules on Downstate coal power plants. The new plan loosens controls, but not as much as Rauner sought.
Brett Chase
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Decision Nears On Rauner Plan For Easing Coal Plant Pollution Limits
The Rauner administration seeks to extend a lifeline to a $13 billion energy company, a plan that would lead to more pollution-related deaths and illnesses, opponents warn.
Posted inGovernment Finance & Accountability
Rauner’s EPA Drafts Compromise Plan To Distribute Volkswagen Settlement Funds
Bending to pressures from public health and environmental groups, state proposes electric car charging stations, cleaner school buses and public transit money to reduce air pollution.
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Residentes Del Sur Y El Oeste De Chicago Luchan Contra El Ayuntamiento Por La Presencia De Industrias Contaminantes
Comunidades más afluentes evitan industrias como los centros de distribución, una planta de reciclaje de chatarra y un fabricante de asfalto. Los residentes dicen que la ciudad tiene que cambiar la forma en que le permite a la industria pesada ubicarse cerca de escuelas, parques y hogares.
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Police Chief Threatens Lawsuit To Stop Clean Water Advocates From Criticizing Him
A husband and wife featured in a previous BGA story criticized the cop about his ties to a quarry owner whom the state is prosecuting.
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Fed-up Residents on South, West Sides Fight City Hall Over Influx of Polluting Industries
Residents protest distribution centers, a metal scrap recycling plant and an asphalt maker — businesses other communities shun. The city has to change the way it permits heavy industry from locating near schools, parks and homes, they say.
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Water District Approves $95,000 to Former Executive Director Following Unexplained Resignation
Executive stepped down at the end of June after sanitary district’s board conducted investigation.
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Madigan Moves To Close Landfills Over Drinking Water Concerns
After BGA stories raised questions about ‘clean-fill’ quarries-turned-dumps taking in debris that could pollute groundwater, state attorney general argues two quarries need to be shut down.
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Clean Dumps May Not Be So Clean, State Suit Charges
Quarries doubling as demolition waste sites threaten to contaminate local water sources, Attorney General Madigan and others warn.
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NAACP Official Asks Rauner’s Environmental Agency to Help Black Communities
The leader of the prominent African-American group in Illinois says too much Volkswagen settlement money is going toward wrong projects.
