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The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

Trend cycles are ruining the fashion industry and environment

Trend cycles are ruining the fashion industry and environment

LiLi Jarvenpa, Interim Content Managing Editor May 12, 2024

I might not be the most fashionable person you will ever meet, but I have still fallen victim to “trendy” pieces of clothing. I bought Birkenstocks when everyone else in my high school had them....

Research technician Carissa Dressel isolates cells in a laboratory experiment in DePaul’s McGowan North Building on Friday, April 19, 2024. Professor Margaret Bell supervises students who are researching the effects of forever chemicals like PCBs and PFAS in the brain.

Biden Administration to mandate limitation of ‘forever chemicals’

Rose O'Keeffe, Asst. News Editor April 21, 2024

Most people in the United States have PFAS chemicals in their blood, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That includes Chicagoans who get their water from Lake Michigan.  To address this...

Mara Logan

Chicago sues fossil fuel industry over climate change

Xadarri Nevels and Lucia Preziosi April 21, 2024

As Chicago prepares for a summer that may bring the hottest temperatures recorded in the city’s history, it joins a growing list of cities and states seeking financial compensation from the fossil fuel...

By Maya Oclassen

Forthcoming Climate Action Plan, context behind high emissions

Rose O'Keeffe, Asst. News Editor April 7, 2024

Unlike colleges and universities, climate change does not take a spring break.  While DePaul students were likely catching up on sleep and preparing for one final quarter of classes before summer,...

McGowan North listed as fourteenth highest emitting building per square foot in Chicago

McGowan North listed as fourteenth highest emitting building per square foot in Chicago

Rose O'Keeffe, Asst. News Editor February 18, 2024

DePaul’s McGowan North is the fourteenth highest greenhouse gas emitting building per square foot in Chicago, city data shows.  Five other DePaul buildings – McGowan South, the Lincoln Park Student...

President Joe Biden waves as he departs after attending Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, Saturday, April 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The climate crisis is embedded in Biden’s American Jobs Plan

Nika Schoonover, Print Managing Editor April 12, 2021

On March 31, President Biden unveiled a $2 trillion plan that seeks to boost the nation’s infrastructure while furthering the president’s agenda to rebuild the economy and address climate change and...

Three-bladed wind turbines at one of Asia's largest wind farms are seen in the backdrop of Western Ghats at Aralvaimozhi, southern Tamil Nadu state, India, Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)

Offshore wind energy is rapidly growing along the coasts. Can the Midwest follow suit?

Jackson Healy, Nation and World Editor April 12, 2021

How does the United States shift towards a more sustainable future centered around clean energy while creating lucrative employment opportunities in the process? The answer  is blowing in the wind. On...

This image shows tropical weather systems Hurricane Norma, left, on the Pacific Ocean side of Mexico; Jose, center, east of Florida; Tropical Depression 15, second from right, north of South America, and Tropical Storm Lee, right, north of eastern Brazil, on Saturday, Sept. 16.
(NOAA-NASA GOES PROJECT, AP)

Students react to hurricanes, climate

Sabrina Miresse September 18, 2017

With the recent presence of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, DePaul students and people across the nation are left to wonder, now what? These students want to see national changes moving forward from these...

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