Brett Chase
Assistant Editor and Reporter
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.
Cerca de 50 opositores de Invert, plan de desarrollo subterráneo masivo, interrumpieron una junta municipal después de que el concejal Peter Chico propusiera revocar una ley municipal para permitir la explotación minera.
Neighbors worry the trucks would create a hazardous nuisance as well as air pollution in a low-income Black residential area.
Edificios centenarios podrían ser derribados para dar paso a otro centro de logística y distribución, añadiendo contaminación y molestias a la comunidad negra del oeste de la ciudad.
Protesters demand City Council member withdraw support for Ozinga mining operation on Southeast Side
Around 50 opponents of the Invert, a massive underground development plan, disrupted a town hall after Ald. Peter Chico proposed reversing a city law to allow mining.
Century-old buildings may be torn down to make way for another logistics and distribution site, adding pollution, nuisance to a West Side Black community.
Wind and solar are supposed to replace coal plants that are closing, but that didn’t happen in 2023. Another fossil fuel, natural gas, filled the void.
El constructor Hilco y sus contratistas acordaron pagar el dinero a los residentes del barrio por la implosión fallida de la chimenea en 2020. Se exigió al alcalde Brandon Johnson que publicara un reporte sobre la supervisión “negligente” de la Ciudad.
Developer Hilco and its contractors agreed to pay the money to neighborhood residents for the 2020 botched smokestack implosion. Mayor Brandon Johnson was urged to release a report on the city’s “negligent” oversight.
Marlene Hopkins debería haber sido sancionada por su papel en la supervisión de la demolición fallida por Hilco de la antigua planta eléctrica Crawford en 2020, según un reporte de un organismo de control. El miércoles, casi dos docenas de concejales elogiaron a la nueva jefa del Departamento de Edificios.