Activists from a Chicago neighborhood where protesters went on hunger strikes in 2021 to try and prevent more pollution from invading their community filed a lawsuit Monday against another growing toxic threat.
The lawsuit filed in federal court by community groups, the Alliance of the Southeast and Friends of the Parks, alleges that plans to expand a lakefront dump filled with polluted sediment break national environmental laws. The group is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for violating both the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, the comprehensive law passed in 1970 that aims to regulate industries which impact nature.
