Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Environmental ReporterJuanpablo covers environmental, substandard housing and police-community relations. He’s been a bilingual facilitator at the StoryCorps office in Chicago. As a civic reporting fellow at City Bureau, a non-profit news organization that focuses on Chicago’s South Side, Ramirez-Franco produced print and audio stories about the Pilsen neighborhood. Before that, he was a production intern at the Third Coast International Audio Festival and the rural America editorial intern at In These Times magazine. Ramirez-Franco grew up in northern Illinois. He is a graduate of Knox College.
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The 18-month-long battle for the fate of some of the remaining remnant prairie in Illinois ends.
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The Chicago Rockford Airport had the federal go-ahead to demolish portions of the prairie
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The Federal Aviation Authority issued a decision that Rockford airport can resume construction
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State and local officials are encouraging residents to contact county health department for testing
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ComED says power for 80% of its customers hit by the outage should return by this evening.
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Illinois Attorney General's Office filed new lawsuit alleging 14 companies knowingly enriched themselves while promoting toxic PFAS products.
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The Natural Land Institute notified state and federal officials of intent to file another lawsuit over the prairie
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The Environmental Protection Agency recently released new rules regarding the Waters of the United States that decide which bodies of water fall under federal protection. But a case the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on soon throws those rules into question and could mean less protection for wetlands.
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Many ag industry and farm worker advocacy groups had high hopes that farm labor reform would make it through Congress last year. Now the future is murky.
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City of Rockford braces for possible severe winter storm