Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco covers climate change and the environment for WBEZ and Grist.
Previously, Juanpablo covers substandard housing and police-community relations for WNIJ Radio in DeKalb. 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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Facing pressure to increase timber harvests, the U.S. Forest Service is sidestepping rigorous environmental reviews and limiting public participation in a project in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest. -
Trump administration to strip protections for wetlands and streams, leaving Illinois habitat at riskAt the heart of the proposal announced earlier this week is a new, stricter definition to the long-debated legal term, “Waters of the United States.” -
Can the state meet its climate goals? -
All of the Great Lakes are experiencing declining ice coverage in the winter, which could affect recreation and shorelines. -
The legal movement to grant natural entities like forests and rivers the same legal rights as humans has won meaningful success abroad, and has in recent years picked up steam in the United States. -
Climate change-fueled hurricanes and sea-level rise get a lot of attention, but Mississippi River Basin communities also are experiencing the effects of global warming. -
A data center in DeKalb, Illinois, is the testing ground for a new sustainable concrete. Is this greenwashing or can new mixtures contribute to reducing the construction industry's carbon footprint?
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The rusty patched bumble bee is endangered and losing some of its last habitat, an Illinois prairie. A multi-million dollar airport expansion is stalled because of a last-minutes sighting of the bees.
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A similar bill has since been introduced to the Illinois Senate. -
Lawyers representing some of the families who lost relatives after a COVID-19 outbreak at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home are preparing to file a lawsuit....
