People who spend summers fishing and canoeing on the Middle Fork Vermilion River should be pleased to know its water quality should be improving in the coming years. The State of Illinois reached a cleanup agreement last month with a company accused of polluting the state s only national scenic river. The settlement requires Dynegy Midwest Generation to clean up toxic coal ash it dumped near the Middle Fork for nearly 60 years. .
Two environmentally focused bills that would ban polystyrene foam food containers and curb single-use plastics separately have passed the Illinois House and Senate, and slowly are making their way to the other chamber.
CHICAGO Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a second agreed interim order in an ongoing lawsuit against Marathon Pipe Line LLC (Marathon) over the March
The second week of hearings for the proposed West Chicago waste transfer station wrapped up with opposition experts questioning the location and bringing up zoning conflicts in the surrounding area.