The Environmental Club’s tree planting is one of scores of events with hundreds of participants occurring through Earth Day this Saturday in Waukegan as part of the city’s second-annual Earth Week, beautifying the community with an environmental impact.
More than $150 million in federal funding has been spent since 1992 on projects to remove harmful chemicals from Waukegan Harbor. Now, local officials say the harbor finally is poised to be removed from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency s Great Lakes Areas of Concern list.