January

• Climate and health: Stories to watch in 2025
• U.S. Government Releases First National One Health Plan to Protect People, Animals, and Our Environment from Shared Health Threats
• PUTTING AMERICA FIRST IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS
• Trump is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement (again), reversing U.S. climate policy
• UN regrets US exit from global cooperation on health, climate change agreement
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February

• ‘Targeted and belittled’: scientists at US environmental agency speak out as layoffs begin
• Microplastics: Are we facing a new health crisis – and what can be done about it?
• Wildfire ecology: Examining the environmental destruction of the LA fires

March

• US EPA Rollback of Dozens of Air, Water and Chemical Pollution Regulations Threatens America’s Health, Experts Warn
• 3 ways the EPA’s rollback of environmental regulations could affect Americans’ health if air pollution worsens
• HHS Announces Transformation to Make America Healthy Again
• EPA launches attack on ‘holy grail’ of climate science — and dozens of enviro rules
• Trump’s environmental rule-shredding will put lives at risk, ex-EPA heads say
• EPA announces dozens of environmental regulations it plans to target

April

• Almost half of U.S. residents are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution, new report says. These are the areas that got an “F”
• US to Stop Reporting Majority of Climate Emissions
• On top of layoffs, HHS ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts
• 4 Takeaways From RFK Jr.’s Press Conference on CDC Autism Report
• RFK Jr. seeks ‘environmental’ cause of autism. Scientists say it’s not that simple
• Indigenous Peoples sidelined in global climate fight, UN warns

May

• ‘A ruthless agenda’: charting 100 days of Trump’s onslaught on the environment
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• General Iron owner: ‘Smoking gun’ from Ald. Garza shows permit wrongly denied
• EPA moves to toughen air standard for particles
• EXEC: CITY ENCOURAGED GENERAL IRON’S MOVE
• ‘A disrespect to me and the community’
• Norfolk Southern, residents spar over expansion
• CITY HEALTH OFFICIAL DEFENDS DENIAL OF SOUTHEAST SIDE METAL SHREDDER’S PERMIT
• In Englewood, a conflict over a rail yard expansion. The way out? Dialogue.
• Chicago area has 3 heavy polluters
• JUDGE TO DECIDE THE FATE OF GENERAL IRON’S SOUTHEAST SIDE OPERATION BY SPRING
• Council OKs rail yard
• FIRE AT SIMS METAL YARD IN PILSEN SPARKS ANGER
• Residents fight dump on shoreline
• EPA to add former Federated Metals site to Superfund list
• More stringent air quality regulations proposed by EPA
• NEGOTIATIONS OVER BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S CLAIM THAT CITY HALL ENGAGED IN ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM ARE DOWN TO THE WIRE
• Chicago, HUD settle environmental racism case as Lori Lightfoot leaves office
• NEARLY 2 MILLION IN ILLINOIS LIVING NEAR WAREHOUSES SHROUDED BY TRUCK POLLUTION
• Stevenson Expressway road-widening plans have some in Little Village worried air pollution will get worse
• Pollution from truck exhaust is getting worse, and government must limit the hazard
• Ozingas’ underground S.E. Side development may be dead due to mining ban
• Less pipe funding flowing to state
• Ruling by judge goes for scrap shredder
• JUDGE OVERRULES CITY DENIAL OF S.E. SIDE PERMIT FOR METAL-SHREDDER
• IN WOODLAWN, NAOMI DAVIS PLANTED A SEED THAT NOW WILL HELP FIND GREEN SOLUTIONS TO AID BLACK COMMUNITIES
• 113-year-old dock a drag on economic growth
• Lead and forever chemicals in our water are inflicting harm on our kids. There is a path forward.
• Toxic Acme site on Southeast Side picked for EPA Superfund cleanup
• Chicago-area residents to test water for study by NU
• Johnson unveils reforms to fi ght environmental racism
• We need more action to get the lead out of Little Village drinking water
• SCRAP JUDGMENT: Judge rejects, for now, General Iron’s request to open on Southeast Side
• EU’s executive arm prolongs use of controversial herbicide
• EPA offers $2B in grants to clean up pollution
• EPA pushes to replace all lead pipe within 10 years
• Officials: Pollution report is just first step

• Stop producing ‘forever chemicals’ says Illinois Environmental Council
• City should address peeling lead-based paint in Southwest Side viaducts
• Opening arguments made in first case alleging pollution from Sterigenics caused cancer and other diseases
• Researchers urge doctors to test patients for toxic forever chemicals, which could cost Americans nearly $63 billion in hidden health costs
• Forever chemicals: They’re in your drinking water and likely your food. Read the Tribune investigation
• Environmental groups call for air monitoring, home air filtration systems in Little Village two years after botched implosion
• Feds slam Chicago for locating polluters in poor and minority neighborhoods, threaten to block millions in aid
• 22-pound invasive silver carp removed from Lake Calumet, just miles from Lake Michigan
• Seven months before smokestack’s botched implosion smothered Little Village in dust, Chicago city inspector issued dire warning
• Judge rejects bid to force Arwady deposition in General Iron case
• In Southwest Side viaducts, peeling paint contains toxic levels of lead. But is it a hazard?
• City should address peeling lead-based paint in Southwest Side viaducts

• NIEHS 2021 Grantee Highlights: Mary Turyk, PhD
• Toxic Metals Study Examines Kids’ Toenails on Chicago’s Southeast Side
• S.H. Bell Gets Deadline Extension for Manganese Dust-Control Plan
• S.H. Bell Must ‘Reduce or Eliminate’ Manganese Emissions, Says City
• EPA: S.H. Bell in Violation of Manganese Emission Standard
• Chicago Expands Investigation of Manganese Sources on Southeast Side
• Durbin to CDC: Investigate Manganese Risks on Chicago’s Southeast Side
• Lead in East Chicago, Indiana
• Chicago Looks to Ban Future Manganese Operations
• How about a little respect for the homely Calumet River and the 10th Ward?
• Newsmakers Making A Difference: Peggy Salazar, Southeast Environmental Task Force
• Chicagoans Battle Manganese Dust Pollution (Video)
• UIC Professor Developing Finger-Prick Blood Test for Toxic Metals
• In Chicago, a river revitalized — but not for everyone
• EPA Plans $1.3M Cleanup of Manganese-Contaminated Soil on Southeast Side
• Lightfoot cracks down on North Side scrap shredder, suggesting the chronic polluter’s clout at City Hall is evaporating
• Health disparities are warning about future