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New doubts cast on safety of common driveway sealant
If a company dumped the black goop behind a factory, it would violate all sorts of environmental laws and face an expensive hazardous-waste cleanup.
But playgrounds, parking lots and driveways in many communities are coated every spring and summer with...Tags: The Home Depot, Rivers, Economy, Business and Finance, University of New Hampshire, Skin Cancer
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Metra says it will install better air filters on trains
Tribune reporterMetra today said it is installing more efficient air filters on its train cars and switching to cleaner fuel for its locomotives to help reduce commuter exposure to toxic diesel fumes. Responding to a Tribune investigation, the rail service also...Tags: Metra, Lungs and Airways, Human Body, Physical Conditions, Diabetes
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EPA encourages regular testing for heavy metal in water
Chicago TribuneFederal regulators on Tuesday urged nationwide testing for cancer-causing hexavalent chromium, the latest response to a study that found the heavy metal in tap water from Chicago and more than two dozen other cities. In a memo to public water systems,...Tags: Entertainment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Illinois, Movies, Medical Research
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Federal deal on Indiana coal plants aims to clear Chicago's air
In a move that could help clean up Chicago's chronically dirty air, the Obama administration on Thursday brokered a legal deal that cracks down on some of the biggest sources of pollution along the southern shore of Lake Michigan.
As part of the...Tags: Gary, Chesterton, Mining, Government, Elections
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City to test water for pollutant at urging of EPA
Chicago will begin routine testing for hexavalent chromium after a recent study found worrisome levels of the cancer-causing metal in tap water pumped to 7 million people in the city and suburbs. City officials announced the additional testing Tuesday,...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Government, Illinois, Medical Research, Public Officials
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Durbin: D.C. battles may ax Metra pollution cleanup
Tribune reporterU.S. Sen. Dick Durbin today warned that budget battles in the nation’s capital could thwart Metra’s efforts to clean up toxic diesel pollution breathed every day by hundreds of thousands of Chicago-area commuters. The 2011 spending bill...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dick Durbin, Metra, Illinois, Elections
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Prairie State coal-fired plant to cap costs
Under pressure to hold down skyrocketing costs that promise more expensive electric bills for dozens of Midwest cities, developers agreed Friday to cap the construction budget for a massive coal-fired power plant in downstate Illinois.
The Prairie...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Economy, Business and Finance, Government, Companies and Corporations, Mining
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State, feds moving to require cleanup of Chicago River for recreation
In virtually every other city in the nation, it would be illegal to pump out partially treated sewage teeming with the amount of disease-causing bacteria that churns endlessly into the Chicago River.
That may soon change for Chicago. But as a state...Tags: Water Pollution, Environmental Cleanup, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Rivers, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Growing concern about farm chemical in drinking water
Tribune reporterDespite growing health concerns about atrazine, an agricultural weedkiller sprayed on farm fields across the Midwest, most drinking water is tested for the chemical only four times a year -- so rarely that worrisome spikes of the chemical likely go...Tags: Hormones and Metabolism, Economy, Business and Finance, Manhattan (New York City), Berkeley (Alameda, California), Testosterone
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Chicago is the only U.S. metro area that would fail proposed nitrogen oxides limits
Chicago is the only U.S. metro area that would fail to meet a tougher standard for smog-forming nitrogen oxides proposed Monday by the Obama administration.
The more stringent limit is intended to help protect people who suffer from asthma and other...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Heavy Engineering, Mining, Science and Technology, Vehicles
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Feds ordered Chicago to clean up its river: How we found out
The Tribune’s scoop about the Obama administration’s order to clean up the Chicago River came after years of reporting about the urban waterway. Taking multiple trips on the river, reading scores of dry-but-important documents and conducting...Tags: Water Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Rivers, Metra, Mining
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Chromium-tainted drinking water: Time for a federal crackdown?
GreenspaceA type of chromium linked to cancer is turning up in tap water in more than two dozen cities, including Riverside, according to a study that urges federal regulators to adopt tougher standards. Even though scientists at the U.S. Environmental......
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