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In his first proposed budget, Mayor Brandon Johnson is seeking to establish an environmental department at City Hall, though it’s initially a small staff expansion of an existing office that would not enforce pollution laws.
Unlike the former department shuttered by then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2012 to save money, the new one would be more of a policy body initially, an expansion to 14 employees from an existing city office of 10, including Chief Sustainability Officer Angela Tovar…
A recent analysis of pollution enforcement by Anthony Moser, a member of the McKinley Park group Neighbors for Environmental Justice, found that businesses accused of violating pollution laws spend months fighting tickets in a process that sees fines reduced and serious charges dropped.
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