Pritzker, Lightfoot: Stop Passing the Buck on Enviro Justice
On June 25, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (“IEPA”) granted an air permit that will enable the relocation of a notorious metal shredding opera...
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New Map Shows Chicago Needs Environmental Justice Reforms
New map by NRDC shows Chicago's Southwest and Southeast side communities bear the heaviest cumulative burdens from environmental pollution, calling for land use...
What’s the Problem with a Facility that "Recycles" Cars?
General Iron’s facility is not just recycling the neighborhood’s aluminum cans, they are ripping apart cars that release extremely dangerous materials and p...
Another Manganese Threat to Chicago’s Southeast Side
In the latest chapter on neurotoxic manganese threatening a Chicago residential community, recently revealed inspection reports show that the City of Chicago an...
NRDC Sues to Block Trump Interior’s Rollback of Methane Curbs
Today, NRDC went to court to block the Trump administration’s latest hand-out to the oil and gas industry—a rollback of protections against waste and harmfu...
Neurotoxic Manganese Threatens Chicago's Southeast Side
There is ongoing concern about neurotoxic manganese being stored on Chicago’s Southeast Side—the same community where petcoke and coal facilities have also ...