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More than a hundred protesters of all ages lined Washington Street in downtown Naperville on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Congressmen Joe Neguse of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee and Bill Foster of Illinois have introduced legislation to identify national composting infrastructure challenges and improve recycling data measurement and reporting.
It's impossible to determine who was the happiest person at Saturday's Juneteenth celebration in Naperville.
But a good guess would be Ginger Grant-Del Valle, a Naperville resident by way of New Orleans and Chicago.
In a local response to the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, about 60 people gathered Saturday afternoon at the WWII memorial on Washington Street in downtown Naperville. The group was there in protest of the recent wave of mass shootings in the U.S. and to urge elected officials to take action. The crowd chanted "enough is enough," "end the violence now," and "no more guns."
The House Financial Services Committee advanced legislation this week seeking to strengthen cybersecurity efforts of the financial services industry.
Self-hosted crypto wallets remain solidly on the radar of US anti-money-laundering regulators.
On April 28, Himamauli Das, acting director of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, appeared before the House Financial Services Committee to testify on the state of FinCEN."
To celebrate Earth Day, the Morton Arboretum kicked off its initiative to plant 3,000 trees throughout the Chicago region. Friday's launch, which included remarks by by Rep. Sean Casten and Rep. Bill Foster, marked the start of the arboretum's Centennial Tree Planting Initiative.
The U.S. needs to create a "road map" to the batteries of the future even as it solves existing supply chain issues, experts told a House panel on Thursday.
Electric vehicles are becoming increasingly more popular in the United States at a time when lawmakers acknowledge the country should make better investments in battery technology and its supply chain.
U.S. policy on alternative fuel vehicles is at a turning point in the transition away from gasoline-powered engines, according to witnesses at a congressional hearing Thursday.
Delays in securing the metals and minerals to manufacture rechargeable electric motors are likely to mean China jumps in to take over the market, they said.