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Company defends use of toxic chemicals to fight plant fire

By JOHN FLESHER
Jun 23, 2021 7:00 am - A company whose northern Illinois chemical plant was heavily damaged in a fire last week defended its use of firefighting foam containing toxic chemicals Wednesday, sayi...
Foam containing 'forever chemicals' used against plant fire

By JOHN FLESHER
Jun 17, 2021 7:00 am - A company hired to help extinguish a fire that gutted a northern Illinois chemical plant this week used foam containing toxic compounds that have tainted surface waters ...
Foam set to be sprayed onto burning Illinois chemical plant

The Associated Press
Jun 15, 2021 7:00 am - ROCKTON, Ill. (AP) - A private firefighting company from Louisiana was expected to begin pumping fire-suppressing foam Tuesday onto the still-burning ruins of a northern...
Illinois chemical plant explosion, fires prompt evacuations

By SARA BURNETT and DON BABWIN
Jun 14, 2021 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - An explosion at a northern Illinois chemical plant Monday morning sparked massive fires that sent flames and huge plumes of thick black smoke high into th...
Exodus of election officials raises concerns of partisanship

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Jun 13, 2021 7:00 am - There is no shortage of job openings for local election officials in Michigan. It's the same in Pennsylvania. Wisconsin, too. After facing threats and intimidation duri...
Judge pauses loan forgiveness program for farmers of color

The Associated Press
Jun 11, 2021 7:00 am - MILWAUKEE (AP) - A federal judge has halted a loan forgiveness program for farmers of color in response to a lawsuit alleging the program discriminates against white far...
Iowa governor questions migrant flights into Des Moines

By DAVID PITT
Jun 10, 2021 7:00 am - DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds complained in a letter sent Thursday that the federal government didn't notify her before flying migrant children into the...
EXPLAINER: Why a rural pipeline is a climate battleground

By JOHN FLESHER
Jun 08, 2021 7:00 am - As Enbridge Energy prepares to finish rebuilding an oil pipeline across rural northern Minnesota, protesters are occupying part of the construction area and pledging a '...
Protesters maintain blockade at Minnesota oil pipeline site

By DAVE KOLPACK
Jun 08, 2021 7:00 am - PARK RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) - Protesters fighting a Canadian-based company's push to replace an aging oil pipeline across northern Minnesota maintained a blockade at a pump ...
Victim of Fox Lake crash identified

By Emmagrace Sperle Daily Herald correspondent
Jun 07, 2021 1:00 am - Authorities on Monday identified a 72-year-old man from Wisconsin as the person killed Saturday in a five-vehicle crash in Fox Lake. Stephen Kamen, of Fontana-on-Geneva...

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