More than $150 million in federal funding has been spent since 1992 to remove harmful chemicals from Illinois’ Waukegan Harbor, and now officials say the harbor finally is poised to be taken off the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes Areas of Concern list. Read the full story by the Daily Herald.
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