In his first proposed budget, Mayor Brandon Johnson is seeking to establish an environmental department at City Hall, though it’s initially a small staff expansion of an existing office that would not enforce pollution laws.
Unlike the former department shuttered by then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2012 to save money, the new one would be more of a policy body initially, an expansion to 14 employees from an existing city office of 10, including Chief Sustainability Officer Angela Tovar.
