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Chicago Area Prairie Peninsula Environmental News - News and links for the Chicago Wilderness ecological area.
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Joined January 2011
Windy City Bird Lab Gets A Boost From Illinois Audubon Society That’ll Fund It For 3 Years:
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March 19, Conversation with Janet McCabe:
us02web.zoom.us
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Faith in Place March Monthly Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Crabs Are Producing Nanoplastics That Could Quickly Move Into the Seafood We Eat, Study Finds:
foodandwine.com
A recent study tracked fiddler crabs in heavily polluted mangroves in Colombia. The crabs accumulated plastic at levels far higher than the surrounding sediment — and as they fed, their grinding...
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Stumped about Arbor Day? Let's talk! February 27:
mortonarb.zoom.us
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Stumped about Arbor Day? Let's talk! . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Illinois' Looming Abandoned Oil Well Crisis March 4:
zoom.us
A new report from the Northwestern Environmental Advocacy Center and ClientEarth USA has identified a major crisis plaguing Illinois: a potential $1 billion oil well cleanup problem. The report...
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By tightening or fluffing their feathers, they can look round and relaxed or tall and branch-like when threatened. #WillCoForests #Owl #BirdWatching
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Ogden Dunes abandons project to place stone erosion barrier in Lake Michigan:
ipm.org
This comes after a nearly two-year legal battle with the environmental group Save the Dunes. Fights over whether to harden the Lake Michigan shoreline have been going on for years and are likely to...
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Lake County towns and Chicago win $120 million settlement with Monsanto over toxic chemical production, contamination:
lakemchenryscanner.com
Multiple cities and villages in Lake County, along with the state, have been awarded $120 million following a lawsuit against Monsanto over the contamination of PCBs in the area.
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Illinois running low on power as AI data centers spike electricity demand:
wbez.org
The news is a blow to Gov. JB Pritzker’s climate change-fighting goals too, as demand from AI data centers soars while wind and solar development stalls.
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New IL law helps farmers, landowners with nuisance deer control:
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Bison once again roam Kane County prairie habitat:
wspynews.com
A small herd of American bison are back in a prairie habitat in Kane County for the first time in more than 200 years.
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Confirmed: First snowfall of the year begins covering solar panels — It’s producing a strange effect that will grow stronger:
ecoticias.com
The first snowfall of the year is covering solar panels and a strange effect is occuring, making people realize something new about solar panels.
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Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability to Use New Science to Strengthen Air Pollution Rules: https://t.co/H4ytDVGKCY
propublica.org
In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules more than once when new science shows unacceptable health risks.
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Slithering Threat: Asian Swamp Eels Spread in U.S. Waterways, Alarm Wildlife Experts:
a-z-animals.com
The Asian swamp eel is an air-breathing, mud-loving predator spreading throughout the United States. These slithering threats are hard to detect and built to survive conditions that affect native...
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3 things to watch in EPA’s endangerment repeal:
eenews.net
The agency is close to finalizing its rollback of the endangerment finding. Legal experts say its success could hinge on these details.
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Hold Prairie State Coal Plant Accountable! training:
sierraclub.org
From the shores of Lake Michigan to the forests of the Shawnee, Illinois is a state rich in natural beauty.
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Homecoming in Kane County as Bison Are Returned to the Prairie and Their Indigenous Stewards:
news.wttw.com
Six bison released onto prairie in Kane County carry the weight of interwoven hopes: that they can heal both the land and the deep trauma borne by Indigenous people.
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