Rulemaking under the Illinois Pollution Law

Currie, David P.

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“…Unlike the state water board, the IEPA could bring enforcement actions against the metropolitan sanitary district as well as polluters within its territory. 182 Through the U.S. Clean Water Act (1972), the federal government also achieved jurisdiction in Cook County. 183 One of the law's central goals mirrored the Clean Streams Advisory Committee's mission of making waterways clean enough for recreation, including fishing.…”

Section: The Revival Of the Clean Streams Advisory Committeementioning

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“…158 In the early 1970s, Illinois environmental regulators still described municipal sewage as the foremost source of pollution in the state. 159 Unlike the interwar movement, postwar committee members also tried to combat industrial pollution, including oil slicks and "chromium and copper bearing wastes." 160 In the forest preserves, as in the United States as a whole, awareness of the hazards attendant to industrial waste grew after WWII.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although the IEPA has had more staff and resources to bring cases against polluters than did the state water board, 193 Illinois regulators continued to pursue a strategy of voluntary compliance, with one stating in 1973, "if no one complied until prosecuted, enforcement costs would surely strangle the program." 194 In 2003, the Chicago-based Environmental Law and Policy Center concluded that IEPA "lack[ed] sufficient resources" to prevent pollution and to punish polluters. At the time, they wrote, "only a small fraction of the thousands of NPDES permit holders [had] their operations inspected in a given year."…”

Section: The Revival Of the Clean Streams Advisory Committeementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Clean Water Act (1972) provided yet more funding for these plants, and committed the federal government to covering 75% of construction costs for government-owned facilities. 198 Corey also points out that pollution began to subside in the Chicago region beginning in the 1970s due to regional deindustrialization. 199…”

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Cleaning Streams in Cook County, IL: Forest Preserves, Water Pollution, and Interwar Environmentalism in the Chicago Region

Vena

2021

Journal of Planning History

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In 1916, the Forest Preserve District of Cook County began acquiring land to create a natural retreat for Chicagoans in that booming metropolitan region. Since district officials acquired many properties along county streams, water pollution soon interfered with their mission of creating an urban wilderness for recreational pleasure. To address the problem, in 1931, county leaders appointed the Clean Streams Advisory Committee that collaborated with forest preserve staff members to pressure polluters to clean-up their operations and to persuade enforcement agencies to prosecute ongoing offenders. They also lobbied the Public Works Administration to earmark New Deal funding for sewage treatment in Cook County. Their efforts suggest that early activism against water pollution in American cities emerged not only from efforts to ensure clean drinking water, but also struggles to protect nature. The interwar campaign to clean forest preserve streams anticipated the goals of the federal Clean Water Act (1972) to make all American waterways fishable and swimmable. The movement also preceded the burst of anti-pollution activism that historians have documented in U.S. suburbs after WWII and laid the groundwork for postwar efforts to mitigate water pollution in Cook County.

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Section: The Revival Of the Clean Streams Advisory Committeementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Revival Of the Clean Streams Advisory Committeementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Revival Of the Clean Streams Advisory Committeementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Revival Of the Clean Streams Advisory Committeementioning

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Cleaning Streams in Cook County, IL: Forest Preserves, Water Pollution, and Interwar Environmentalism in the Chicago Region

Vena

2021

Journal of Planning History

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“…Land disposal of industrial waste continued well into the 1950s, and the conversion of Lake Calumet's north end into a landfill significantly worsened water contamination. [15] The U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare reported the Grand Calumet River was biologically dead and the area's streams were severely polluted [16] . A 1967 assessment by Robert J. Bowden identified U.S. Steel, Inland Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube as the Calumet region's next biggest polluters [17] .…”

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Illinois environmental history: The lead-up (1960s) to the passage of Illinois environmental protection act

Ennin

2024

Int. J. Hist.

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This study explores the critical environmental challenges faced by Chicago and Illinois in the 1960s, marked by severe water, air, and land pollution. This crisis threatened public health, limited recreational opportunities, and sparked urgent demands for action. The research examines the complex interplay between unregulated industrial activities, public health concerns, and evolving regulatory responses, culminating in the landmark 1970 Illinois Environmental Protection Act. Drawing on media investigations, ecological studies, and citizen activism, the paper sheds light on the pivotal forces that shaped environmental policy in a heavily industrialized state. Importantly, it argues that the success achieved in Illinois regarding the passage of the Environmental Protection Act was facilitated by the combined efforts of citizen activists, media personnel, and environmentalists. Beyond a historical account, the research offers valuable insights into the development of environmental governance, policy formation, and the dynamic relationship between industry, society, and the environment, contributing to ongoing academic discourse on these crucial topics.

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Federal Air-Quality Standards and Their Implementation

Currie¹

1976

Am. Bar Found. res. j.

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With the enactment of the Clean Air Act amendments in 1970, the federal government, essentially an interested bystander as recently as 1960, became the dominant presence in air pollution control. The current statute provides for federal research, financial support of state control programs, and interstate compacts (secs. 101-106). It retains, in vestigial form, a cumbersome conference procedure (sec. 115) copied from the earlier water-pollution statute and never much used in air pollution. irect federal regulatory authority was substantially increased by the 1970 amendments: the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may now adopt emission standards not only for new vehicles (sec. 202) but also for all aircraft (sec. 231), for new stationary sources of any type that “may contribute significantly to air pollution” (sec. 111), and for any source of a “hazardous” air pollutant, that is, one that “may cause, or contribute to, an increase in mortality or … in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness” (sec. 1 12); it may also regulate the contents of motor-vehicle fuels (sec. 211). An emergency provision authorizes the federal agency, absent adequate state or local action, to sue to enjoin any emissions contributing to “an imminent and substantial endangerment to the health of persons” (sec. 303). Yet everyday control of most existing stationary sources remains subject to an awkward joint federal-state system of air-quality standards. That system is the subject of the present article.

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Rulemaking under the Illinois Pollution Law

Abstract: The only violation involved was a statutory one. The delegation question seems to have been discussed in response to the argument that the Board could not decide Meadowlark in quasi-judicial fashion because it had quasi-legislative powers as well.

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Cleaning Streams in Cook County, IL: Forest Preserves, Water Pollution, and Interwar Environmentalism in the Chicago Region

Cleaning Streams in Cook County, IL: Forest Preserves, Water Pollution, and Interwar Environmentalism in the Chicago Region

Illinois environmental history: The lead-up (1960s) to the passage of Illinois environmental protection act

Federal Air-Quality Standards and Their Implementation

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