environment
UIC researchers are expanding a study that looks at whether the Chicago River and other local waterways make boaters, kayakers and fishermen sick. Wanted: 3,000 more volunteers.
8 months ago | Alex Parker
If the MWRD chooses to open its new biosolids recycling plant, it will cost taxpayers $42 million more than expected. But abandoning the plant will also cost millions.
8 months ago | Marian Wang
Environmental historian Harold Platt levels some pointed questions at Mayor Daley and his efforts to make Chicago America's greenest city.
8 months ago | Marian Wang
The Chicago Public Schools will receive funds from the EPA's Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative, a regional collaboration between government, industry and environmental groups to improve air quality in the Midwest.
8 months ago | Marian Wang
A bill to be introduced in the state Senate this week would allow commercial composting of organic waste. Backers say the move would help farmers and reduce the amount of garbage sent to landfills.
8 months ago | Alex Parker
Chicago officials are pushing for more hybrid vehicles for city workers. They just rolled out the city's first hybrid medium-duty truck, and plan to purchase more as technology improves
8 months ago | Marian Wang
Chicago’s car-sharing companies concentrate business in white and mixed race neighborhoods and not poor, mostly-black neighborhoods with the highest percentages of no-car households.
8 months ago | Marian Wang
A group of 40 Loyola students takes a road trip to Washington, D.C., to join other young environmental activists in demanding green jobs and clean energy policies from the nation’s leadership.
8 months ago | Marian Wang
The district will spend $75,000 on a pilot program to evaluate disinfecting wastewater with ultraviolet rays. The process can be more effective at eliminating bacteria than the agency's existing method.
9 months ago | Marian Wang
The district has compiled a hefty shopping list totaling $380 million for the stimulus package currently being debated in the U.S. Senate.
9 months ago | Jennifer Slosar
Henry Henderson, director of the Midwest Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, says it can. He's pushing businesses and regulators to collaborate on environmentally friendly ways to spur economic growth.
9 months ago | Jennifer Slosar
Marshall Eames is the university's first sustainability director, keeping tabs on dozens of efforts across campus to save energy and help the environment.
9 months ago | Peter Sachs
West Ridge is getting "cleaner and greener" public trash compactors. The solar-powered trash cans handle more garage than traditional cans and will be installed in the area in the spring.
9 months ago | Roxane Assaf
Most employees at the district will receive a 3.5 percent wage hike. The move comes at a time when private-sector employers are instituting widespread wage freezes and layoffs.
10 months ago | Jennifer Slosar
Naomi Davis seeks to cultivate green jobs and build self-sufficiency in black communities. She's pushing to redevelop a former Underground Railroad stop on the South Side.
10 months ago | Jennifer Slosar
