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Brett Chase

Contributor/Midwest Network Partner

Brett Chase is a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times.

A lifeguard stands watch amid a haze of Canadian wildfire smoke at Loyola Beach on Chicago’s North Side in June. The West and South sides of the city get heavy air pollution all year. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Chicago Aims To Have Most Air Pollution Sensors in the US

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Samuel Corona (right), an activist with the Alliance of the Southeast, chants, “Stop General Iron” outside Chicago’s City Hall. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says it will no longer monitor a civil rights agreement with Chicago over the controversial scrap metal operation. Credit: Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Trump Dismisses Civil Rights, Fair Housing Cases in Chicago To Focus on ‘Real Concerns’

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Cheryl Johnson stands near the office of People for Community Recovery in Altgeld Gardens. Credit: Zubaer Khan/Chicago Sun-Times

Hazel Johnson Launched an Environmental Movement in Chicago That Trump Is Trying to End

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

The workers are holding signs with messages like, "Protect federal workers!" and "Stop the Billionaire Takeover"

Trump Reverses Course, Reinstates Some EPA Workers Fired From Chicago Office Just Days Earlier

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Nyla McCranie, a probational employee who was fired Friday from the Environmental Protection Agency, speaks Tuesday at a rally in Federal Plaza held to protest President Donald Trump’s targeting of the agency. Credit: Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Trump’s Friday Firings Leave EPA Chicago Office Down Dozens of Scientists, Staff

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Naperville residents urged their City Council at a recent meeting to seek new providers of power after learning that 80 percent of the electricity for the city is sourced from coal plants. Credit: Courtesy of Hunter Byington

With Fossil Fuels’ Comeback, Can Climate Goals Get Back on Track in Illinois?

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a news conference at the former U.S. Steel South Works site to discuss a massive quantum computing campus on Chicago’s South Side. Credit: Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file photo

As Illinois’ Governor Recruits Data Centers, Chicagoans’ Electricity Bills Are Getting More Expensive

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

A view of wind turbines at Grand Ridge Energy Center in LaSalle County, Illinois. Wind energy is the leading source of renewable energy in Illinois. Credit: Invenergy

Will There Be Less Wind to Fuel Wind Energy?

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

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

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

NRG Energy's coal-fired Will County Electric Generating Station sits along the I&M Canal on May 15, 2019 in Romeoville, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

‘Last Gasp for Coal’ Saw Illinois Plants Crank up Emission-Spewing Production Last Year

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

Opponents of a metal-shredding operation have fought Mayor Lori Lightfoot since she took office almost three years ago. In this 2020 photo, demonstrators lined up near the mayor’s home. Credit: Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Mayor Slow to Act on Promises to Build Green Economy by Repurposing Polluted Industrial Sites

By Brett Chase

Christopher Williams of Millennium Solar Training speaks to a class about the future of clean energy in Woodlawn, Illinois, on Thursday. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Illinois Now Boasts the ‘Most Equitable’ Climate Law in America. So What Will That Mean?

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

Pete Southerton (left) and Tom Bradshaw, of solar energy contractor Certasun, install solar panels on a Northwest Side home, Monday afternoon, May 17, 2021. Credit: Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times

Illinois Solar Companies Say They Are ‘Held Hostage’ by Statehouse Gridlock

By Dan Gearino, Brett Chase

The Prairie State coal fired power plant in southern Illinois. Photo Courtesy of Prairie State Generating Co.

As Illinois Strains to Pass a Major Clean Energy Law, a Big Coal Plant Stands in the Way

By Dan Gearino, Brett Chase

Pete Southerton (left) and Tom Bradshaw, of solar energy contractor Certasun, install solar panels on a Chicago home on May 17, 2021. Credit: Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times

How Pay-to-Play Politics and an Uneasy Coalition of Nuclear and Renewable Energy Led to a Flawed Illinois Law

By Dan Gearino, Brett Chase

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