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The General Assembly appropriated up to $14 million to the Illinois EPA for the EV rebate program for the current fiscal year. Lewis said the latest move by the Trump administration is an ...
(The Center Square) – As the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency announces another round of funding for an electric vehicle rebate program, the landscape is changing after a new ...
A semitruck carrying caustic anhydrous ammonia toppled about 9:25 p.m. Friday in Teutopolis, spilling more than half its 7,500-gallon (28,390-liter) load, according to the Illinois Environmental ...
This same article notes that in the future, Illinois is likely to experience greater hazards from human-caused climate change, including heaving precipitation and higher flooding, large algae blooms on Lake Michigan, a longer growing season, but higher temperatures, which will offset the benefits of the longer season, higher levels of ground ...
The effects of climate change on human health are profound because they increase heat-related illnesses and deaths, respiratory diseases, and the spread of infectious diseases. There is widespread agreement among researchers, health professionals and organizations that climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. [1] [2]
Because of the impact of humans on the natural environment in the recent geological period, the term ecological crisis is often applied to environmental issues caused by human civilizations such as: the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and plastic pollution which have emerged as major global challenges during the first few decades of the 21st ...
Illinois Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Brandon Damm said the Edwardsville office of the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Division had no reports of mine subsidence as of noon Thursday.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency wrote on its website [69] in May 2009 that "When the 2007 illegal use of the well was determined in December of 2007, the Illinois EPA began enforcement action by sending a Non-Compliance Advisory letter to Crestwood advising against future use of the emergency back-up well found to be contaminated ...