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Protect children from toxic chemicals
While delighted to learn from Michael Hawthorne's article ("Pediatricians Seek Change in Lax Toxic Chemicals Law," April 25) that the American Academy of Pediatrics has joined a national campaign to revise the 1976 Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA), such...Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, Health and Safety at School, Maryland, Prince George's County, Parenting
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Cleaners leave a toxic legacy
Tribune staff reporterFor decades, one of the nation's most widely used dry cleaning solvents was billed as a marvel of modern chemistry that could safely remove dirt and stains from clothing. Shops sprang up to take advantage of the chemical, perchloroethylene, also known as...Tags: Human Body, Economy, Business and Finance, State Budgets, Business, Environmental Pollution
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Air pollution lawsuit: Federal and state lawyers sue Midwest Generation over Illinois power plant emissions
Tribune reporterFrom the outside, the power plant that towers above Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood looks like a sooty relic from the early part of the last century. The Fisk plant has been burning coal to generate electricity on the Near West Side since 1903. But federal...Tags: Barack Obama, Standards, Economy, Business and Finance, Government, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
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A polluters' paradise?
Tribune staff reporterToxic sludge oozed out of rusty barrels, soaked through cardboard boxes and spilled over frothy vats inside a west suburban warehouse raided by state inspectors in January 2008. Even though the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency had plenty of...Tags: Government, Criminals, Elections, Disasters and Accidents, Metal and Mineral
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Crestwood residents in dark on cancer
Tribune staff reporterSix months after state health officials declared their investigation of cancer rates in south suburban Crestwood was almost complete, they have yet to release the results. The Illinois Department of Public Health, which earlier had failed to notify...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Internists, Pat Quinn, Health and Medical Professionals, Illinois
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Cleaning up the Chicago River
Steve ChapmanIt seems like a simple choice: Would we rather have a Chicago River that is clean enough for fish to flourish and people to swim? Or would we prefer to let polluters go on dumping filth into the city's chief...... -
EPA targets coal-fired power plants
In a move that portends cleaner air in Chicago and other communities east of the Mississippi, the Obama administration cracked down Tuesday on smog- and soot-forming pollution from coal-fired power plants in 31 states and the District of Columbia. The...Tags: Plant Openings, Economy, Business and Finance, Barack Obama, Government, Metal and Mineral
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Diet Proposals Often Refuted, Ignored
Chicago Tribune Staff WriterEvery five years the American public gets a newly tweaked directive on what we're supposed to be eating. And every five years the American public largely ignores it. For example, the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend we eat 2 1/2 cups of...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Science, Washington (U.S. state), Restaurant and Catering Industry, Health and Medical Professionals
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Climate-change talk for grownups
Change of SubjectThis morning, "my Tribune colleague Michael Hawthorne took readers on a tour through the conflicting claims on global warming. We ran a climate change questions and answers package along with it," writes James Janega at TribNation. Hawthorne underscores... -
Nuclear waste has no place to go
Tribune reporterIn a pool of water just a football field away from Lake Michigan, about 1,000 tons of highly radioactive fuel from the scuttled Zion Nuclear Power Station is waiting for someplace else to spend a few thousand years. The wait just got longer. President...Tags: Mississippi, Illinois, Environmental Cleanup, Plant Openings, Barack Obama
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EPA backs BP dumping
Tribune staff reporterRebuffing bipartisan pressure from members of Congress, the Bush administration's top environmental regulator on Tuesday declined to stop the BP refinery in northwest Indiana from dumping more pollution into Lake Michigan. Stephen Johnson,...Tags: Laws, Lakes and Ponds, Companies and Corporations, U.S. House of Representatives, Dick Durbin
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BP to reconsider permit on refinery
Tribune staff reporterResponding to a groundswell of protests from politicians and the public, BP and Indiana regulators agreed Wednesday to reconsider a permit that allows the Midwest's largest oil refinery to significantly increase the amount of toxic waste dumped into...Tags: Lakes and Ponds, Barack Obama, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Companies and Corporations, Fishing
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