• NOV 27, 2019
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    State EPA lacks manpower to protect environment: report

    Bubbly Creek. [USGS Illinois Water Science Center]
    The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s staff has been cut nearly in half since 2003 and those who remain can’t keep up with the workload, according to a new report published Thursday by two former agency directors and researchers from the University of Chicago Law School. 

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