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Nearly 300,000 Illinoisans rely on utilities where PFAS in well water exceed the state’s proposed standards, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis.
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Regulations would require commercial sterilization operations to reduce EtO emissions by 90%, largely by installing pollution-control equipment already required in Illinois.
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More than 100 million Americans are expected to benefit, including at least 660,000 in Illinois who get their drinking water from a utility that violates the new standards for PFAS.
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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s bill also would attempt to prevent corporations from seeking protection under bankruptcy laws to avoid lawsuits seeking compensation for health damages.
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For the first time polluters could be forced to clean up sites contaminated with a pair of forever chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave th…
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New regulations require coal-fired power plants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 90% and clamp down on toxic metals dumped into lakes and rivers.
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Under contract until 2035 to buy a share of Prairie State’s electricity and help pay off $5 billion in debt, towns are now being asked to extend to 2050.
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Study finds airborne concentrations of PFAS are higher near Chicago, other urban centers, but when carried by rain, urban and rural Great Lakes areas have consistent levels.
5 months ago
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Air quality testing near Vantage and Medline during 2019 and 2020 detected spikes of EtO, when the wind blew away from the facilities toward homes and apartments.
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The pesticides, prone to drifting into neighboring yards, also endanger human health: ‘This is chemical trespassing.’
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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.
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