All across the region, villages, cities, and towns are reckoning with what climate change will mean for coal, not just as an energy source but as a cultural icon in America’s heartland.
A year after federal investigators outlined how Chicago funnels industrial polluters into Black and Latino neighborhoods, Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed Monday to overhaul zoning, planning and land-use ordinances that perpetuate the city’s long history of racial segregation. Johnson called his pledge the beginning of what promises to be a lengthy, contentious effort to undo the effects of decades .
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