New pollution standards will mean Chicago sewage gets disinfected On May 11th, the USEPA told Illinois EPA that if they don’t insist on tougher pollution standards for the Chicago River, the Cal-Sag Channel and the Little Calumet River “promptly,” then USEPA will do it for them. This news was greeted with agreement from various environmental […]
Pollution
PRESS RELEASE – Serial Spillers: Suit Announced to Limit MWRD Water Pollution
Illegal sewage discharges mucking waterways from Chicago to Gulf of Mexico For immediate release: March 1, 2011 CHICAGO (March 1, 2011) – Water pollution illegally dumped from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s (MWRD’s) three sewage treatment plants and combined sewer overflow pipes has created a plume of harmful impacts stretching from Chicago all the way […]
