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On Earth Day, EPA union workers decry cuts to clean air and water regulations

April 22, 2025

Fifty-five years after the first Earth Day, Environmental Protection Agency employees and advocates call for help as the Trump administration rolls back environmental regulations and lays off hundreds of workers. Earth Day was marked not with celebration but with a sense of urgency and despair for Environmental Protection Agency union members in Chicago as the […]

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Federal Funding Freeze Halts IL EATS Program

March 6, 2025

The deputy director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) says the Trump administration’s federal funding freeze has halted the Illinois EATS program. Kristi Jones tells Brownfield it was part of the USDA funded Local Food Purchase Assistance Program. “Those reimbursement dollars are how we fund the lead agencies, the farmers, and the food.” She

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IL CAFOs on rise as industry remains underregulated

February 25, 2025

Illinois is known for having some of the weakest environmental laws for concentrated animal feeding operations, with a lack of oversight and public transparency for the entire process. A coalition of rural landowners is working to change it. In Illinois, it is estimated there are more than 21,000 concentrated animal feeding operations. Chad Wallace, director of rural affairs

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General Iron’s Pollution Doesn’t Belong Here

June 9, 2020

Take action to stop serial polluter, General Iron, from moving to the southeast side of Chicago!

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On Earth Day, EPA union workers decry cuts to clean air and water regulations

Federal Funding Freeze Halts IL EATS Program

IL CAFOs on rise as industry remains underregulated

General Iron’s Pollution Doesn’t Belong Here

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