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By Kari Lydersen for Energy News Network.Broadcast version by Mark Richardson for Illinois News Connection reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration University Park is a small suburb south of Chicago, built around sprawling warehouses for companies like Clorox, Amazon and Solo Cup that attract a steady stream of diesel truck traffic. Its residents, 88% of whom are African American, are also exposed to pollution from a steel and wire processing facility relocated there from a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood, as well as steel mills and an oil refinery in nearby Northwest Indiana. So, village manager Elizabeth Scott figured, the town was a prime candidate for improving quality of life and the environment by adopting electric vehicles — even if only two local households had EVs when Scott first checked the secretary of state’s website. .
A new round of federal funding is coming North Dakota s way to help plug dozens of abandoned oil wells. The U.S. Department of the Interior this week awarded $25 million to North Dakota to respond to what is described as "legacy pollution." With the financial boost, 46 orphaned oil and gas wells will be plugged, along with remediation work at more than 270 contaminated sites. .
Connect Savannah is launching a new singer-songwriter concert series and kicking it off are Grammy nominated and Emmy Award winning songwriting duo, the Warren Brothers..