The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization wants Unilever, ... Diesel engines create tiny particles — 40 are needed to make up the width of one human hair, Mudd said.

They are unhappy about stinky processing plants and noisy, smelly trucks driving through their neighborhoods, belching diesel fumes. Little Village jobs in Chicago come at a price: Sun-Times ...

Edith Tovar of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) says that with the distribution centre going up, the city is ‘trading coal for diesel’, and Little Village ...

LVEJO Executive Director, Kimberly Wasserman, said the one-million-square-foot site would contribute an excessive number of diesel trucks to an area already burdened by diesel pollution and ...

The Chicago Truck Data Project, carried out by LVEJO along with the Center for Neighborhood Technology and Fish Transportation Group, used cameras and software to systematically measure the number and ...

She’s with the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. She’s concerned about the additional pollution that could come with extra diesel trucks traveling through the neighborhood.

LVEJO's role in the local food system was years in the making, and it began with environmental activism. Pino recalls how, in 1994, a group of parents forced their local elementary school to ...

The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) has led the agitation for the route's re-birth since at least 2007. A week ago, it urged would-be riders to write or call CTA ...

The news of a factory expansion on the city’s West Side is generally a cause for rejoicing — more manufacturing means more jobs in an area that could use them. But environmental advocat… ...