An increasing trend has more younger people using whipped cream chargers to get high.
A flawed measurement may have recorded inflated levels of a dangerous chemical being emitted from a southwest suburban medical sterilization facility, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday.
Residents of Lake County were alarmed to learn they've been breathing air polluted by cancer-causing gas from two medical manufacturing plants in the area.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Sterigenics, which operates a plant in Willowbrook that allegedly is polluting the air with toxic chemical ethylene oxide (EtO).
Representatives from the Illinois Attorney General's office accused the Rauner administration Friday of hiding information about the cancer risk at the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook.
The Illinois EPA has ordered Sterigenics to cease operations in Willowbrook until their safety investigation into carcinogenic emissions is completed, as political pressure mounts to close the facility.