Illinois Environmental Agency suffers deep staff cuts

By Johnathan Hettinger
“‘There has been such a slow burn of cuts and cuts and cuts,’ said Jen Walling, executive director of the Illinois Environmental Council, an association of 80 environmental groups across Illinois. ‘But what this administration is doing is worse because they have
the capacity to do more.’”

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