Wetlands. "Chicago may swap wetlands" was the headline to a story Tuesday in the Chicago Tribune about how "The planned expansion of O'Hare International Airport could lead to the restoration of hundreds of acres of suburban wetlands along the Des Plaines River."
Medical Waste. A story in the Gary Post Tribune yesterday reported:
Perhaps more stories to be added later Posted by Marcia Oddi at July 2, 2004 08:45 AM
GARY — Several hundred people filled Trinity Missionary Baptist Church Tuesday in opposition the licensing approval of Midwest Medical Solutions to build a medical waste facility here. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has cleared the way for the facility to be built at 1310 Michigan St. * * *The facility will house up to 150,000 pounds of medical waste and is expected to be the destination for up to 50,000 pounds of medical waste each day.
“How can a place that can’t get a Wal-Mart, get selected to be a place for medical garbage of the entire Midwest,” [Rev. Dwight Gardner of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church] asked. “We stand together tonight to say Gary, Indiana will not be the destination of anybody’s garbage from anywhere.”