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A truly foul, nasty river ran through it
Cleaning up the Chicago River, a waterway engineered to flow backward and lined with dozens of sewage pipes, has always been a tough fight.
At the turn of the last century, officials reversed the river and started sending Chicago's waste toward the...Tags: Environmental Politics, Politics, Regional Authority, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Metra will clear the air in its train cars
Metra appears to have found a way to dramatically clean up the air inside its stainless-steel cars, but spikes of lung- and heart-damaging diesel pollution will remain a lingering problem on the platforms at Chicago's major rail stations.
In response...Tags: Politics, Travel, Transportation, Vehicles, Corporate Officers
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Air pollution: Chicago-area coal plant to shut down earlier than expected
After deciding it isn't worth cleaning up one of the nation's dirtiest power plants, the owners of an aging coal-burner along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan are shutting it down sooner than expected.
In its latest financial documents, Virginia-...Tags: Coal, Dominion Resources Incorporated, Solar Energy, Chicago Tribune, Companies and Corporations
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Report: Power Plants Killing Tens-of-Millions of Great Lakes Fish
Power plants around the Great Lakes are killing tens of millions of fish every year and nothing's being done to stop it; according to a Chicago Tribune environmental investigation published this week.
The report also said the Cook Nuclear Plant near...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Judges, Michigan, Lakes and Ponds, Lawyers
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Weekend rain forces stormwater into lake
Tribune reporterRecent steady rains forced local officials to dump more than 105 millions gallons of stormwater and raw sewage into Lake Michigan. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District on Sunday opened a sluice gate near the Bahai Temple in Wilmette that separates... -
Metra finds 'alarming' pollution on some trains
Metra's own testing of toxic diesel exhaust inside its passenger coaches shows the transit agency's pollution problems are more extensive and worrisome than it has publicly disclosed, according to records obtained by the Tribune.
A summary of tests...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Environmental Politics, Politics, Health and Safety at School, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Study finds elevated rates of cancer in Crestwood
![Cancer rates are "significantly elevated" in Crestwood, according to a new state report that focuses on a south suburb where residents unwittingly drank contaminated water for more than two decades.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-03/52574839-04213333-187105.JPG "Cancer rates are "significantly elevated\" in Crestwood, according to a new state report that focuses on a south suburb where residents unwittingly drank contaminated water for more than two decades.")
Cancer rates are "significantly elevated" in Crestwood, according to a new state report that focuses on a south suburb where residents unwittingly drank contaminated water for more than two decades.
Prompted by a Tribune investigation that revealed the...Tags: Patrick Fitzgerald, Environmental Politics, Politics, Defense Equipment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Seeking permission to pollute
A monitor at George Washington High School on the Southeast Side shows that air in the neighborhood has the distinction of containing the state's highest levels of toxic heavy metals, chromium and cadmium, as well as sulfates, which can trigger asthma...Tags: Politics, Coal, Cook County Government, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Donne E Trotter
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Catch up on Tribune watchdog reporting
![On Wednesday, the Tribune featured reports updating two of its major watchdog projects this year -- "Clout Goes to College," which exposed the University of Illinois admissions scandal, and "Compromised Care," which reported that elderly and disabled nursing home residents were allegedly assaulted, raped and even killed by mentally ill criminals also living in the facilities. Today we provide updates on other watchdog efforts.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-10/50022582-23050342.jpg "On Wednesday, the Tribune featured reports updating two of its major watchdog projects this year -- "Clout Goes to College,\" which exposed the University of Illinois admissions scandal, and \"Compromised Care,\" which reported that elderly and disabled nursing home residents were allegedly assaulted, raped and even killed by mentally ill criminals also living in the facilities. Today we provide updates on other watchdog efforts.")
On Wednesday, the Tribune featured reports updating two of its major watchdog projects this year -- "Clout Goes to College," which exposed the University of Illinois admissions scandal, and "Compromised Care," which reported that elderly and disabled...Tags: Politics, Health and Safety at School, State Budgets, Medical Services, Criminals
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Tribune watchdog update
![(Click on "What we found" to read the original Tribune investigation.)](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2010-08/55369437-05064724.jpg "(Click on "What we found\" to read the original Tribune investigation.)")
(Click on "What we found" to read the original Tribune investigation.)
Lake County's DNA doubts
What we found: In December 2008, the Tribune detailed how Lake County prosecutors were pressing ahead on three cases, including one against Jerry Hobbs,...Tags: Politics, University of Notre Dame, Illnesses, State Budgets, Criminals
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Scientists try to defuse nuclear fallout fears
Fallout from Japan's crippled nuclear reactors already is being detected thousands of miles away. But scientists who track pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean say the amount of radioactivity should pose no danger to the United States.
Like other...Tags: Environmental Politics, Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Colleges and Universities, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Deal would clear up coal-plant pollution
Tribune reporterIn a move that could help clean up Chicago’s chronically dirty air, the Obama administration today brokered a legal deal that cracks down on some of the biggest sources of pollution along the southern shore of Lake Michigan. As part of the...Tags: Politics, Environmental Politics, Coal, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Michigan
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