It’s been 12 years since residents in a small Indiana town learned their well water had been contaminated. EPA cleanup is crawling forward, but some deeply involved in the cleanup deny there’s a problem.
The city of Chicago could be near the end of a five-year legal battle for control of a former industrial site with potential to help form a 24-acre park. If an eminent-domain settlement holds up, the land could be an asset for a Mexican-American area of the Southwest Side.
Proponents of organic meat often make the case that it's inherently better for people's health and the environment than meat raised by conventional farming methods.