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Company that converts garbage into fuel eyeing Hoffman Estates
Oct 17, 2019 4:47 PM - A California-based company that creates diesel and jet fuel from the carbon in household garbage otherwise headed to a landfill hopes to build a new processing plant in Hoffman Estates. -
How Lake County will encourage energy-efficient projects
Oct 14, 2019 5:30 AM - Lake County officials want to help local business owners finance projects designed to boost energy efficiency. -
Deputy governor says Pritzker would sign new ethylene oxide regulations
Oct 10, 2019 6:28 PM - Gov. J.B. Pritzker is ready to sign a pair of ethylene oxide regulatory bills should the General Assembly pass them, a representative of his office told a House committee Thursday. -
Clean energy legislation appears unlikely to advance
Oct 9, 2019 5:36 PM - A package of bills aimed at transforming the state's energy landscape appears unlikely to move during the upcoming fall veto session after Gov. J.B. Pritzker was less than optimistic on the subject this week at an unrelated Chicago news conference. -
Suburban lawmakers back bill to limit use of cancer-causing gas
Sep 23, 2019 5:07 PM - Several suburban lawmakers have shown their support for a new plan that would ban the use of the cancer-causing gas ethylene oxide as a sterilizer and significantly cap its use in manufacturing. -
UN climate summit unlikely to produce big progress
Sep 21, 2019 4:39 PM - Hopes of a breakthrough in international climate change ambitions are being downplayed for a landmark meeting in New York Monday. -
Stevenson High reserving parking spots for Earth-friendly cars
Sep 20, 2019 5:34 AM - Long recognized for environmentally friendly construction and operating strategies, Stevenson High School has further extended its planet-friendly philosophy to its parking lots. -
Five York students draw a crowd in Elmhurst to support their climate strike
Sep 19, 2019 9:19 PM - Five York High School students drew a little crowd to support their climate strike Thursday at Elmhurst Presbyterian Church. -
Global warming's effects: How exactly ice melt and the rising seas work
Sep 20, 2019 12:15 AM - Of all the consequences of a warming world, the idea that our oceans would rise is, on its face, one of the easiest to understand -- and maybe the most terrifying. -
The silenced: meet the climate whistleblowers muzzled by Trump
Sep 19, 2019 12:24 PM - Six whistleblowers and ex-government scientists describe how the Trump administration made them bury climate science -- and why they won't stay quiet.
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