Environmental Protection Agency

Early mistakes along the way in the City of Peoria’s combined sewer overflow projects will likely mean a $200 million-plus increase to the bill for the multi-year, federally mandated process.

A new grant means plans to reuse contaminated waste sites across the Tri-County area are in the works.

Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate allegations it isn't properly inspecting facilities that emit…

Chicago's O'Hare International Airport will receive a $640,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to buy zero emissions ground support…

A wide-ranging Great Lakes cleanup program would receive $300 million next year under a spending bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee.The…

Illinois Republican Congressman Peter Roskam has told the White House he opposes a Trump administration proposal to eliminate the Great Lakes Restoration…

The Environmental Protection Agency says water sampling in Lake Michigan and a tributary shows no significant discharge of a potentially carcinogenic…

Hundreds of current and former employees of the Environmental Protection Agency are speaking out against President Donald Trump's pick to head the…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A study of hazardous materials shipped by train and truck through a three-county area in central Illinois is expected to begin…

Federal regulators are recommending that the city of Galesburg provide bottled water or filters to residents affected by high levels of lead in their…