Over the past couple of weeks we've been writing about some of the efforts to clean up the air in Chicago. Citizen Action/IL and the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago are pushing members of the City Council to pass the Clean Contracting Ordinance, a bill that targets particulate matter emitted by construction equipment and vehicles operating under city contracts. And this morning we highlighted a Tribune report that found lead pollution levels near a Southwest Side elementary school were consistently higher than the federal standard last year, a story that is spurring federal and state regulators to open a new, joint investigation.
Giant agriculture corporations, controlling nearly all of the food supply in the country, have become major political players, contributing to politicians, paying lobbyists, and buying the ability to pollute waterways in Illinois and around the country at will.
Over the past couple of weeks we've been writing about some of the efforts to clean up the air in Chicago. Citizen Action/IL and the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago are pushing members of the City Council to pass the 
