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Vickie Simmons, a member of the Tribal Council of the Moapa Band of Paiute in southern Nevada, calls on the EPA to reform its coal ash disposal rules at a rally in Chicago on June 28, 2023. Credit: Aydali Campa

Advocates from Across the Country Rally in Chicago for Coal Ash Rule Reform

By Aydali Campa

An EV charger stands in the parking lot of St. Paul and the Redeemer Church on Oct. 19, 2021 in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Credit: Taylor Glascock for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Illinois Advances Access to Chargers to Meet EV Goals 

By Aydali Campa

Along with DFL legislative leaders and his commissioners, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz threw a ceremonial budget bill-signing party on May 24, 2023 on the State Capitol steps. Credit: Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Minnesota Emerges as the Midwest’s Leader in the Clean Energy Transition

By Aydali Campa

Esmeralda Hernández, de 46 años, posa cerca de su casa en La Villita. Se opone a un plan para ampliar la autopista Stevenson cerca de su casa.Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Vecinos de La Villita temen que empeore la contaminación ambiental por los planes de ampliación de la autopista I-55

By Aydali Campa, Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Esmeralda Hernandez, 46, poses for a portrait near her home in Little Village. She is alarmed by a plan to expand lanes of an expressway near her community on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Plans for I-55 Expansion in Chicago Raise Concerns Over Air Quality and Community Health

By Aydali Campa, Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Activists protest and rally against a General Iron plant being relocated to the Southeast Side of Chicago, near Lori Lightfoot's home in Logan Square, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Credit: Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Chicago, HUD Settle Environmental Racism Case as Lori Lightfoot Leaves Office

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Tractor-trailers move along an interstate frontage road Jan. 13, 2004 in Hampshire, Illinois. Credit: Tim Boyle/Getty Images

In the Crossroads State of Illinois, Nearly 2 Million People Live Near Warehouses Shrouded by Truck Pollution

By Al Lewis

Workers install windows in a townhome complex under construction on May 15, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Illinois Launches Long-Awaited Job-Training Programs in the Clean Energy and Construction Sectors

By Aydali Campa

Hundreds of Illinoisans gather at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, urging lawmakers to support a set of environmental bills on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Credit: Brian Urbaszewski

Activists Rally at Illinois Capitol, Urging Lawmakers to Pass 9 Climate and Environmental Bills

By Aydali Campa

Chicago’s Little Village Residents Fight for Better City Oversight of Industrial Corridors

By Aydali Campa

Construction at the Double Black Diamond solar project in southeast Sangamon County on March 20, 2023 near Virden, Illinois. Photo Courtesy of Rich Saal/Swift Current Energy of Boston

Look Out, California: One of the Country’s Largest Solar Arrays is Taking Shape in… Illinois?

By Dan Gearino

Randy DeBaillie walks toward his solar panels at his farm in Orion, Illinois on Feb. 3, 2019. Credit: Youngrae Kim for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Illinois Put a Stop to Local Governments’ Ability to Kill Solar and Wind Projects. Will Other Midwestern States Follow?

By Dan Gearino, Aydali Campa

The POET Bioprocessing, a processing plant that produces ethanol in Menlo, Iowa on April 12, 2022. Navigator partnered with ethanol plants across the Midwest to collect, transport and store 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through a proposed carbon pipeline project. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Navigator’s Proposed Carbon Pipeline Struggles to Gain Support in Illinois

By Aydali Campa

3M's chemical plant in Cordova, Illinois released 73 tons of perfluoromethane (CF4) into the atmosphere, more than any other industrial facility in the county, in 2021. CF4 is 7,380 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and remains in the atmosphere for 50,000 years. Credit: Phil McKenna

A 3M Plant in Illinois Was The Country’s Worst Emitter of a Climate-Killing ‘Immortal’ Chemical in 2021

By Phil McKenna

As Flooding Increases, Chicago Looks To Make Basement Housing Safer

By Siri Chilukuri, Borderless Magazine

Tractor-trailers move along an interstate frontage road January 13, 2004 in Hampshire, Illinois. Credit: Tim Boyle/Getty Images

Chicago-Area Organizations Call on Pritzker to Slash Emissions From Diesel Trucks

By Aydali Campa

Lisa Benjamin, founder of Millennium Enterprises II, stands in her office in Matteson, Illinois. Credit: Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Illinois Clean Energy Law’s Failed Promises: No New Jobs or Job-Training

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

Dan Hurowitz harvests produce at City Farm on Sept. 30, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

A New Push Is on in Chicago to Connect Urban Farmers With Institutional Buyers Like Schools and Hospitals

By Aydali Campa

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