Michael Hawthorne

A study details how more than 3,600 chemicals in food-related materials have been detected in people worldwide; a companion review confirms 189 chemicals linked to breast cancer.

The move is part of changes in federal regulations intended to protect Americans from a metal so dangerous it is unsafe at any level of exposure.

Florida gets millions for lead pipe replacement while other states have bigger needs

New chief’s agenda includes expanding efforts to slow climate change, aggressive action on forever chemicals and speeding up lead pipe removal.

In northeast Illinois, more than 777,000 tons of sludge from Chicago and Cook County have been spread on farmland — in many cases near residential areas.

The Trump administration is moving to fire or force out more than 20% of the agency’s Chicago staff.

Mass firings and regulatory rollbacks come as scientists routinely determine pollution is far more damaging than previously thought.

Executive orders unlikely to help coal, once a dominant sector of the economy but now in steep decline because it can’t compete against cleaner, less-expensive energy sources.

PFOA and PFOS have been found in the drinking water of 200 million Americans, including 6 out of 10 Illinoisans.

Eight months after a Cook County judge found Trump Tower repeatedly violated clean water laws, the president’s business operators agreed Thursday to pay $4.8 million to settle lawsuits allegi…