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With EPA Perchlorate ban, greener dry cleaning grows stronger than ever
February 25, 2025

By Ed Finkel In the closing days of the Biden Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued rules banning all uses of trichloroethylene (TCE), as well as all consumer uses and many commercial uses of perchloroethylene (PCE), labeling these as cancer-causing chemicals under the 2016 bipartisan Toxic Substances Control Act. The decision intersects with decades-old work to make commercial clothes-cleaning operations more environmentally sustainable and less... Continue reading »

 

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Tools for Equitable Mobility

by Community Science and CNT
December 16, 2021

This guide is meant to advance equity in the transportation field. Across the nation, there is growing recognition that transportation policies and investments have harmed, and been used as tools to marginalize, Black and brown neighborhoods, people with disabilities, and other groups. Initiated and funded by the Barr Foundation, this guide seeks to help public agencies, and the advocates and organizers who influence them, to make decisions that advance transportation equity. This guide reviews six of the nation's leading tools for assessing potential equity impacts of new transportation policy decisions, explains the context and preconditions for the effective use of these tools, and suggests complementary activities. People who work at transportation public agencies at all levels are the primary audiences for this tool, as they have the power and responsibility to change their behavior; advocates, organizers, and community groups can also use this guide to encourage their public agency partners to use the tools profiled here.

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Activists anxiously await air monitors, hope Chicago isn’t backsliding on pollution promises

Chicago Tribune | February 16, 2025

Chicago is building what climate scientists say could be the country’s best system for monitoring tailpipe pollution from diesel trucks.

But even though the air monitors have arrived, the city doesn’t expect to finish installing them for another year. Meanwhile, community members who are supposed to help operate the network and disseminate the findings are being asked to work for free when funding runs out

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