Illinois offers rebates for electric vehicle purchases, but many find themselves ineligible
Loopholes in the way the state law is written only allow buyers who purchase within certain windows of time to apply.
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Loopholes in the way the state law is written only allow buyers who purchase within certain windows of time to apply.
"We have the world's best water, and many, many households are drinking it through a toxic straw," said Rachel Havrelock, director of the Freshwater Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The agency said tighter standards would improve IQ scores in children and reduce high blood pressure and heart disease in adults.
An EPA official said that the agency has conducted 578 home re-entry screenings and is continuing air monitoring from 15 stations within the community.
Each day - the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says Americans throw away nearly 70 million plastic foam cups.
CBS 2 Investigator Dorothy Tucker spent the afternoon looking through state and environmental records for the company’s history after the plant fire in LaSalle.
The Environmental Protection Agency is checking air quality at the scene, and there is concern about chemical residue that fell around the area. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
A metal recycling company in Pilsen that had been ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to monitor their levels of pollutants is now getting a stamp of approval. CBS 2's Marybel Gonzalez reports on a continuing controversy surrounding the metal shredder.
Just Transition Northwest Indiana says up to two million tons of coal ash are leaking arsenic, thallium, and other toxins into the lake near Michigan City.
The mayor of University Park says he has had it with Aqua Illinois, the company that supplies the village's water, after dealing with dangerous drinking water for more than a year.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency removed nearly 1,200 tons of lead and arsenic contaminated soil.
It has been a summertime gathering spot in Hegewisch for more than half a century, but beginning Tuesday, the Little League field in the neighborhood became an active Environmental Protection Agency cleanup site.
Additional funds provided by Congress for Great Lakes environmental improvements will be used to hasten cleanups of highly toxic sites and step up work on other longstanding forms of pollution, federal officials said Thursday.
People have been told not to touch the water in the Burns Waterway.
The river flows 13 miles (21 kilometers) through Gary, East Chicago and Hammond. Steelmaking, meatpacking and oil refining contaminated the river's sediment with heavy metals and PCBs as well as oil and grease.
The man who asked repeatedly for a state investigation into the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook was remembered Saturday at a vigil in Elmhurst.
In 2016, over 1,000 people were forced from the West Calumet Housing Complex after tests found high lead levels in blood samples from some children and some yards with lead levels over 70 times the U.S. safety standard.
Topping the list is a $1.5 million grant to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
The Illinois EPA is now letting you download reports on your local water system, so you can look at the number of lead service lines.
The EPA estimates that Illinois has 3.7 million water lines. Of those, about 415,000 are made of lead. About 319,000 are made of copper and potentially contain lead solder.
A new report from the state health department revealed a higher than normal number of cases of several cancer types for people living near the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook.
Sterigenics released the following statement Friday regarding the Illinois Department of Public Health's cancer incidence report.
He battled cancer and fought to get the word out about a dangerous chemical coming from a plant near his home. Matt Haller lost his fight against cancer, but before he died, he wanted to share a message with CBS 2's Dave Savini.
Sterigenics and the EPA released the following statements after the EPA performed air quality tests after the Sterigenics plant was ordered to stop using ethylene oxide.
"People who get exposed to it, they can get cancer at high enough levels."
