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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a Trump administration rule on carbon dioxide emissions, effectively restoring President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which limited those pollutants from power plants.
With the Earth on track to finish out another year among the warmest on record and the impact of climate change mounting around the globe, advocates around the Great Lakes are looking ahead to what a new administration could mean for the Midwest, the region containing one of the world’s largest freshwater sources.
Great Lakes advocates hope new administration will take on climate change Morgan Greene, Chicago Tribune © Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS High water levels from Lake Michigan flood the lakefront trail south of Chess Pavilion on North Avenue Beach in Chicago on June 16, 2020. CHICAGO — With the Earth on track to finish out another year among the warmest on record and the impact of climate change mounting around the globe, advocates around the Great Lakes are looking ahead to what a new administration could mean for the Midwest, the region containing o...
In this year’s installment of its annual Highway Boondoggles report, U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group warn of billions of dollars in proposed spending on unnecessary highway projects that would divide our communities, deprive transit of scarce funds, and pollute our air and water. Below is the third of seven installments detailing these harmful projects. It’s our annual December donation drive. Please give from the heart (and wallet!) by clicking here. Thanks. Illinois officials have budgeted $206 million for a new interchange on I-57 that would take drivers onto a road ...