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By Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer Chicago was built at the swampy dip between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, supercharged by a 19th century canal that connected the two water bodies. The city exists because the water, until now, has been controllable. But because of climate change, Lake Michigan’s shoreline has been wildly fluctuating, […]
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Hazel Johnson was an environmental activist from Chicago’s South Side who is known as the mother of the environmental justice movement. As Block Club Chicago wrote, Becoming an environmental activist wasn’t something the New Orleans native had set out to do, but when her husband, John — a bricklayer — was felled by cancer in […]
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The New York Times late last night broke the story that the State of Michigan has agreed to pay close to $600 million to victims of the Flint water crisis, in a settlement that will be announced later this week.
Why This Matters: Children with elevated levels of lead in their blood are more likely to have learning disabilities and increased behavioral difficulties — it causes irreversible damage to children’s development, according to the report. Lead is unsafe at any level. It’s time to get the lead out of our environment.
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In one of his final acts as Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel ushered through the city council a resolution to commit the city to run on 100 percent renewable energy by 2040, ten years earlier than the state of Illinois requires, and making it the largest city in the U.S. to do so.
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