WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Representative Sean Casten (D-IL-06) led members of the Illinois Congressional ...

Most notably Biden re-committed the U.S. to the Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to keep global surface temperature rises below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels, though Trump ...

EPA's Chicago office faces major cuts, risking disaster response and health assessments in Detroit and Hamtramck.

Indiana basketball fans headed to the exit with their team trailing 28 points in the first half to No. 20 Illinois en route to a 94-69 loss that was one of the most lopsided home losses in program ...

The administration is moving to fire or force out more than 20% of the agency’s Chicago staff, including officials who enforce clean air and water laws and others dedicated to helping poor communities ...

“It was very exciting,” said Shepard of New York’s WE ACT. “The environmental justice movement had worked for years to bring these issues to the federal government, and it really began to ...

More than 100 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chicago office have been warned by President Donald Trump’s administration that they may be fired. The warnings came in an email sent ...

Environmental leaders believe grants and other sources of funding will allow them to continue cutting pollution, even if ...

More PFAS news as Trump withdraws proposed limits on effluent pollution and remediation is underway in North Bay, Ontario.

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The Trump administration’s surprise federal funding freeze spurred discord and pushback in Illinois even as a judge temporarily blocked the effort.

In a letter filed in federal court, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency said the proposed expansion of a toxic waste dump on the Southeast Side would go against state law. It’s the latest ...