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A growing legal movement to grant natural entities like rivers and forests legal rights is gaining traction in the U.S., and environmentalists are now setting their sights on the Mississippi River.
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Three companies are proposing pipelines across the Midwest that would carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol plants to underground sequestration sites. The plan is to inject the CO2 deep into rock formations under Illinois and North Dakota, but some landowners are pushing back.
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Across the Midwest, some city codes threaten people with fines for having milkweed on their property. But experts say many places have dropped those rules to support monarchs with urban and suburban butterfly gardens.
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Three companies want to capture carbon dioxide from Midwestern ethanol plants, transport it by pipeline and store it underground.
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In this episode of So Ill, our podcasters examine why they're taking time out of their busy school schedules to join a podcast team.
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A new report from the Environmental Working Group found targeting the U.S. Department of Agriculture's conservation funding to the Mississippi River region would have huge benefits to water quality and the climate.
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WSIU's Jennifer Fuller talks with Carbondale Author Treesong about his new book, "All The Climate Feels"
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There are currently 13 coal-fired generators operating across Illinois, making up just over 20-percent of the state’s power generation.
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Mike Baltz provides his monthly commentary on environment and nature issues in southern Illinois and around the globe
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Volunteers can train to be a Master Naturalist through the U of I Extension.