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Brett Chase

Reporter - (Environmental, Planning & Public Health)

Brett Chase reports on environmental protection, pollution and public health. He is a former investigative reporter for the Better Government Association, and, before that, worked at Bloomberg News, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Crain’s Chicago Business. He has a journalism degree from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and has taught journalism at Loyola University in Chicago.

In all, 129,000 children, 68% of those 5 or younger, had lead in their home drinking water, a study found.
The addition of the long-abandoned and contaminated Acme Steel plant’s land to the government’s priority cleanup list offers hope of a conversion to a park or other place for recreation.
After three years of behind-the-scenes planning, trash hauler LRS scraps an idea to send waste down to Central Illinois from the Sanitary and Ship Canal.
Las acciones de Marlene Hopkins y el ex funcionario, Jorge Herrera, “constituyeron una mala administración pública”, según reporte.
Los funcionarios ambientales de Illinois reforzarán su supervisión de los contaminadores que estén estableciendo operaciones o expandiéndose.
After a four-year standoff, the governor’s deal with the U.S. EPA commits Illinois to weighing the likely environmental impact before allowing more polluting industry to move to low-income neighborhoods already burdened by environmental and social stresses.
Marlene Hopkins oversaw the 2020 Crawford plant demolition that coated the community in dust.
La demanda afirma que BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil y Shell han perjudicado a la Municipalidad desacreditando la ciencia mientras sus productos provocan “consecuencias catastróficas”.
The suit says BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Shell have hurt the city by discrediting science even as their products lead to “catastrophic consequences,” including strong storms, flooding, severe heat and shoreline erosion.