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Posted inFeatured, Illinois, Latest News, News, Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice, Region

The nation’s first commercial carbon storage plant is in Illinois. It leaks.

by WBEZ October 22, 2024November 8, 2025
Posted inChicago, Climate Change, Feature-Chicago, Featured, Illinois, Lake Michigan, Latest News, News, Region, Science, Technology & Research

Chicago’s beach season is over … or is it? Lake Michigan temps are breaking records.

by WBEZ September 27, 2024November 8, 2025
Posted inLatest News, News

Trying to build a more climate-resilient Chicago, one balloon at a time

by WBEZ September 20, 2024November 8, 2025
Posted inFeatured, Industry, Energy, Economic Development, Latest News, News

Major federal funding aims to speed transition to clean energy in the rural Midwest

by WBEZ September 12, 2024
Posted inChicago, Feature-Chicago, Featured, Illinois, Industry, Energy, Economic Development, Latest News, News, Region

South Shore residents are fed up with garbage on their streets

by WBEZ August 12, 2024November 8, 2025
Posted inAsian Carp, Featured, Illinois, Invasive Species, Latest News, Michigan, News, Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice, Region, Science, Technology & Research

Illinois and Army Corps at an impasse over building barrier to prevent invasive carp

by WBEZ March 25, 2024
Posted inIllinois, Latest News, News, Region, Water Quality and Restoration Efforts

Illinois lawmakers seek to protect state wetlands

by WBEZ March 6, 2024
Posted inChicago, Feature-Chicago, Featured, Illinois, Latest News, News, Region, Water Quality and Restoration Efforts

Army Corps plans $1 billion barricade to deter invasive carp at Illinois and Des Plaines Rivers

by WBEZ January 24, 2024
Posted inClimate Change, Featured, Lake Michigan, Latest News, News, Recreation and Tourism, Science, Technology & Research

Warmer winters mean less ice on Lake Michigan – hurting lake trout and whitefish

by WBEZ January 8, 2024

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Latest News

  • When Forests Burn, Lakes Suffer
    Severe fires can damage soils, increase runoff, and degrade water quality in remote watersheds.
  • Pennsylvania Activists Urge Lawmakers to Help Curb Soaring Electric Bills
    Despite skyrocketing demand driven by data center development, the industry says it is not the cause of increasing costs for consumers.
  • Federal wildfire bill may repeal ‘roadless rule’ that protects national forest land in Wisconsin
    First passed in 2001, the rule prevents logging and road construction on almost 59 million acres of national forest land, including 69,000 acres of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin.

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