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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Environmental reporter Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco is heading a little east after three years with WNIJ. -
U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth announced the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency will receive $1,681,556 to conduct remedial actions at the Beloit Corporation Superfund hazardous waste site. -
In an effort to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050, the Biden administration is offering more tax credits for carbon capture sequestration and utilization. The program once expected to cost $3.2 billion now could exceed $100 billion. -
Governor J.B. Pritzker visited Rockford on Thursday to announce the new Metra intercity rail project. -
A major surge in climate resilience funding is allowing urban forestry departments to focus on trees. About $1.5 billion of funding will be invested in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program. -
Looking for ways you can help unhoused people in your community? Rockford has a number of ways you can give your time, talents, and support, whether it's through an organization or one-on-one. -
El Río Mississippi fluye apaciblemente debajo del Puente Centennial, que conecta Illinois e Iowa por las Quad Cities. Un sábado por la tarde a principios de mayo, los carros pasan y saludan o dan un bocinazo ocasional a una larga fila de ambientalistas que afirman que el río es un ser vivo. -
Advocates from across the Mississippi River basin are calling for the Mississippi River to be granted legal rights. -
A month after bulldozers tore through Bell Bowl Prairie, forest preserve begins salvaging plant life -
The disease, Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus Type 2, was first observed in the southwest United States in March of 2020 and has rapidly spread to nearly half of all states.
