Brett Chase
Reporter - (Environmental, Planning & Public Health)
Brett Chase reports on environmental protection, pollution and public health under a grant from The Chicago Community Trust. 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.
“Siendo una demolición ambientalmente compleja, no se aprobarán permisos de demolición hasta que se lleve a cabo una reunión comunitaria”, dijo el departamento de salud pública en un comunicado.
Michael Tadin Jr. and his family bought the silos from the state for $6.5 million in December.
Dual threat puts the most vulnerable at risk on what’s expected to be the hottest day of the year. Temperatures, humidity should lower over the weekend.
Owner that bought General Iron says city should be forced to issue an operating permit.
The group founded in Altgeld Gardens in 1979 was part of a federal civil rights complaint prompting a city settlement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Las comunidades con inundaciones o calor extremos solo verán peores condiciones a menos que se tomen medidas para responder y reducir los impactos.
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory say they want to help understand perennial flooding as well as climate-related bad air quality and extreme heat.
Heat can cause the ground to swell and building foundations to slowly sink, particularly in the high-temperature Loop — but that hot air can be captured and turned into energy, Northwestern researchers say.
Firefly populations “got off to an absolutely terrible start this year,” says Doug Taron, longtime curator of biology at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln Park.