Swimming in the Chicago River: not a swan dive off the Trump Tower
In a moment of nostalgia for our outgoing mayor, who threw some of the most colorful hissy fits in all of Chicagoland, I recalled one of them yesterday after...
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USEPA to Illinois: Don't make us come back there!
Last year, I pointed out that USEPA had finally stepped in as the adult in the room, moving to exercise federal authority in the longstanding Chicago River...
NRDC Files Suit against the Water Reclamation District: Time for the District to Become Part of the Solution, Not the Problem
NRDC and its coalition partners filed a lawsuit today demanding that the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District stop polluting the Chicago River and start...
Overflowing with chutzpah: Chicagoland's sewage treatment authority explains why it shouldn't have to clean up
Have you heard the classic definition of “chutzpah,” a Yiddish word meaning audacity and gall? According to Leo Rosten, author of The Joys of Yiddish , the...
Illinois' coal gasification bills: the new bridge to nowhere
Remember the bridge to nowhere ? The earmark-funded bridge in Alaska that was to provide a staggeringly costly way for people to get where they didn’t need to...
Yellowstone grizzlies: don't shoot the messenger
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, a self-proclaimed Bible-based advocacy organization, has a solution to this year’s unusual fatal grizzly bear...