Energy & Environment

ROCKFORD -- The Forests Preserves of Winnebago County and Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden are pleased announced Tuesday that they have received $10,000 in grant funding from the ComEd Green Region program for the construction of a…

Staff Report CHICAGO - ComEd employees continue to together to help support local communities this holiday season with the company’s annual “12 Days of Community Energy” campaign. For the fourth consecutive year, ComEd employees will…

By Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday completed one of its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era effort that sought to wean the nation's…

By The Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A group representing mayors of cities in the Great Lakes region wants to fortify an Illinois waterway to prevent Asian carp from invading Lake Michigan. The Great Lakes and St.…

By The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is urging his Illinois counterpart to help pay for a project to keep invasive carp establishing themselves in the Great Lakes. Snyder sent a letter Tuesday to…

MT. MORRIS — There’s no denying the Bald Hill Prairie Preserve is a pretty special place. Last year, the Byron Forest Preserve District acquired the gravel hill prairie that had been used for cattle grazing for decades. For one thing,…

The question of whether the bald eagle population is dwindling in the Midwest continues to confound bird watchers along the Mississippi River. The organizer behind an annual winter count conducted in January by hundreds of volunteers …

After drift from the herbicide dicamba harmed millions of acres of soybeans in 2017, environmental groups are worried that it could damage sensitive ecological areas.

A new study details the sources of unnatural green growths of vegetation and bacteria that stink up long stretches of the upper Wisconsin River.

An Illinois man behind a longstanding bald eagle count says the latest numbers are alarming, but federal officials say there may be other factors at play.

For a second consecutive year, President Donald Trump is trying to drastically reduce or eliminate federal support of cleanups for iconic U.S. waterways including the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay.

Some members of Congress want a one-year deadline for completing a federal study on keeping Asian carp out of the Great Lakes by strengthening defenses on a crucial Illinois waterway.

White, who is not a scientist, has compared the work of mainstream climate scientists to "the dogmatic claims of ideologues and clerics."

Good news for bird watchers and environmentalists: Illinois' bald eagle population is rebounding.

Penalties sought from polluters in Illinois have dropped to $6.1 million under Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration, a newspaper analysis of enforcement data shows.