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Trump administration delays monarch decision
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service puts off ruling on butterfly as endangered species
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Ted CoxLyndsey Ramsey, Illinois Farm Bureau, Monarch Butterflies, Illinois Monarch Project, Donald Trump, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, EPA, Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Jen Walling, Lindsay Keeney, Greg Sheehan
EPA workers 'shackled' by Trump in enforcing EtO regulations
Groups blame lax EPA for cancer scare in Willowbrook, Lake County
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Ted CoxNicole Cantello, AFGE Local 704, Sterigenics, Stop Sterigenics, Medline Industries, Vantage Specialty Chemicals, EPA, IEPA, Ethylene Oxide, EtO Emissions, Donald Trump, Bill Wehrum, Andrew Wheeler, Bryce Hensley, Romanucci & Blandic, J.B. Pritzker, Bruce Rauner, J, J.C. Kibbey, Natural Resources Defense Council, Illinois Environmental Council, Sri Rao, Colleen Smith
Dems ask EPA to inspect Lake County EtO firms
Members of Congress call for testing at Medline, Vantage
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Ted CoxEPA, IEPA, Sterigenics, Stop Sterigenics, Stop EtO, Medline Industries, Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Andrew Wheeler, Cathy Stepp, Donald Trump, Tammy Duckworth, Dick Durbin, Lauren Underwood, Sean Casten, Bill Foster, Brad Schneider, Dan Lipinski
Congressional Dems demand Lake County EtO tests
Sens. Duckworth, Durbin, five reps. call for federal action as the EPA stands idly by
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Ted CoxEPA, IEPA, Dick Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, Lauren Underwood, Sean Casten, Bill Foster, Brad Schneider, Dan Lipinski, EtO Emissions, Stop EtO, Stop Sterigenics, Sterigenics, Medline Industries, Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Lisa Madigan
Staffers, environmentalists decry 'devastating' Trump EPA cuts
Rep. Garcia says cuts would create ‘an illusion there is still an EPA’
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Sierra Club opposes coal-ash water dump
Dynegy’s Wood River power plant in East Alton seeks permit for process environmentalists call ‘cap and run’
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Ted CoxSierra Club Illinois Chapter, Sierra Club, Piasa Palisades Sierra Club, Dynegy, Vistra Energy, Wood River Power Plant, Coal Ash, IEPA, Earthjustice, Prairie Rivers Network, Environmental Integrity Project, EPA, Toni Oplt, Metro East Green Alliance, Illinois Environment, Illinois Water
Sterigenics shut down!
IEPA ‘seals’ Willowbrook firm, bans use of ethylene oxide
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Hold EPA accountable for EtO, say congressional Dems
Durbin, Duckworth, Schneider, Foster lead bicameral effort to tell Trump EPA to ‘stop sitting on its hands’
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Ted CoxSterigenics, Stop Sterigenics, Dick Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, Brad Schneider, Bill Foster, Sean Casten, Dan Lipinski, EPA, Medline Industries, Vantage Specialty Chemicals
Congressional Dems meet with Sterigenics heads
But Sterigenics made few if any concessions on ethylene oxide, according to Sen. Durbin
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Ted CoxDick Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, Michael Petras, Phil MacNabb, Sterigenics, Stop Sterigenics, Sotera Health, Ethylene Oxide, Bill Foster, Brad Schneider, Sean Casten, Dan Lipinski, EPA, Medline Industries, Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Neringa Zymancius
Sen. Duckworth calls for oversight on EPA hiring
Illinois senator joins Delaware’s Carper in demanding hiring reforms at the Environmental Protection Agency
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Duckworth, Durbin call for probe of EPA
Senators charge ‘potential outright misconduct by political appointees’ failing to regulate firms on ethylene oxide like Sterigenics
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Dick Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, Ethylene Oxide, Sterigenics, Stop Sterigenics, EPA, Andrew Wheeler, Tom Carper, Michael Mikulka
'End shutdown, furlough Trump': New video!
Members of Congress lead rally with government workers idled or going without pay during shutdown
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Jan Schakowsky, Danny Davis, Sean Casten, Robin Kelly, Bill Foster, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Don Villar, Chicago Federation of Labor, Michael Mikulka, EPA, USDA, Florence Cannon, Pete Rosa, Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, Lauren Underwood
Duckworth: Trump appointees nix EtO investigations
Senator says ‘political appointees are working to undermine’ EPA on Sterigenics
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Ted CoxTammy Duckworth, Donald Trump, Andrew Wheeler, Cathy Stepp, Ruth Etzel, EPA, IEPA, Sterigenics, Stop Sterigenics, Ethylene Oxide, Medline Industries, Scott Pruitt, Scott Walker, Dick Durbin, Lisa Madigan
Village mayor seeks Sterigenics shutdown
Stop Sterigenics community group plans protest Saturday at firm’s headquarters in Oak Brook
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Ted CoxBruce Rauner, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, EPA, IEPA, Sterigenics, Stop Sterigenics, Ethylene Oxide, Ethylene Glycol, Frank Trilla, Neringa Zymancius, Lisa Madigan, Tammy Duckworth, Dick Durbin
Congressional Dems demand new EtO limits
Sens. Durbin, Duckworth lead sponsors of bill calling for lower legal standards on ethylene oxide
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Bruce Rauner, Dick Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, Brad Schneider, Bill Foster, Dan Lipinski, Andrew Wheeler, EPA, IEPA, Sterigenics, Stop Sterigenics, Medline Industries, Vantage Specialty Chemicals
Congressional Democrats press EPA on EtO
Durbin, Duckworth, Foster, Schneider meet EPA head, demand action on ethylene oxide cancer scare
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Ted CoxBruce Rauner, Dick Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, Bill Foster, Brad Schneider, Andrew Wheeler, Sterigenics, Stop Sterigenics, Medline Industries, Vantage Specialty Chemicals, EPA, IEPA
Senators seek EPA probe on Sterigenics
Durbin, Duckworth, Congressman Foster ask inspector general to investigate apparent cover-up
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'Cancer cluster' cover-up?
EPA, Rauner knew of heightened cancer risk at Sterigenics facility in Willowbrook for eight months before informing public
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Ted CoxBruce Rauner, Lisa Madigan, Sterigenics, Stop Sterigenics, Illinois EPA, EPA, Donald Trump, Deregulation, Dick Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, Quincy Veterans Home, Legionnaires' Disease, Ethylene Oxide
