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Residents have dealt with sewage flooding their homes and neighborhoods after heavy rains for years. With a new grant from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Cahokia Heights plans to complete repairs in February 2026.
Pipe failure caused June 2022 anhydrous ammonia release in Grayling.
A truck drives through their eastside neighborhood once a minute to get to the Stellantis plant. Neither the state or city is monitoring the truck traffic or emissions
CHICAGO (October 11, 2022) — Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced more than $148 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to the state of Illinois for water infrastructure improvements.
By Brianna M. Lane Thanks to a spongy M&M-like technology, contaminated soil in the Detroit River downstream of the MacArthur Bridge has been contained. Powdered activated carbon was used to absorb the contaminated soil in the $3.6 million Detroit RiverWalk project that finished in December. “Activated carbon is a pure form [of carbon] that’s used to absorb contaminants,” said John Collins, the general manager for AquaBlok, the Ohio contamination remediation company that created the carbon under the brand name of AquaGate +PAC. The project was a partnership between the EPA and the Detro...