The state’s top environmental official says the feds stopped oversight of the cleanup of an oily mess in a Chicago waterway before the job was done.

President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency says that the cleanup should be finished by Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration and the company responsible for the spill of almost half a million gallons of liquid asphalt into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

In April, the EPA ordered Petroleum Fuel and Terminal Co. of Forest View to clean up the asphalt from the canal, noting that the substance was potentially harmful to humans and wildlife. The spill from the company’s nearby plant occurred in February but the extent of the contamination was more apparent once the water warmed and the asphalt liquified.

James Jennings, who leads

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