Activists Lobby Biden, Lightfoot Admins Over Industrial Pollution

By Daniel Tucker
A new EPA rule will make it more difficult for the regulators to use some scientific studies about the connection between pollution and health.
A new EPA rule will make it more difficult for the regulators to use some scientific studies about the connection between pollution and health.
A new EPA rule will make it more difficult for the regulators to use some scientific studies about the connection between pollution and health.
A new EPA rule will make it more difficult for the regulators to use some scientific studies about the connection between pollution and health.

Activists Lobby Biden, Lightfoot Admins Over Industrial Pollution

By Daniel Tucker
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As Vice President Kamala Harris visits Chicago, Southeast Side activists are asking her to address environmental racism in their community.

Reset talks to two people fighting against plans to bring a metal shredding plant to the area, a move that’s still pending as the Lightfoot administration considers whether to issue or deny a permit.

GUESTS: Olga Bautista, president of the Southeast Environmental Task Force

Wesley Epplin, director of health equity at Health and Medicine Policy Research Group