The Sierra Club Prairie Group will sponsor a panel presentation and discussion titled Champaign County’s Water: Where It Comes From, Where It Goes To, and How We Can Protect It Along the Way to increase local awareness about federal, state and local policies that regulate Champaign County’s water use and quality. Panelists Robert Hirschfeld and […]
Press Release: Asian carp spawning population moves closer to Lake Michigan
For Immediate Release Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 Asian Carp: Leaping Faster to Lake Michigan Than the Solutions to Stop Them CHICAGO – The leading edge of the Asian carp invasion in Illinois has advanced dramatically, with spawning moving nearly 100 miles upstream this year to within 25 miles of an electric barrier that is the […]
Press Release: Peoria Group Calls for Protection of Illinois River from Toxic Coal Pollution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 7, 2013 Contact: Joyce Blumenshine, Sierra Club Heart of Illinois Group, joblumen@yahoo.com, (309) 678-1011 Traci Barkley, Prairie Rivers Network, tbarkley@prairierivers.org, (217) 621-3013 Central Illinois Healthy Community Alliance Urges Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to Protect the Illinois River Public Hearing Held on Water Pollution Discharged by Ameren’s E.D. Edwards Coal Plant […]
Citizens to EPA: Clean Up Our Water!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Citizens to EPA: Clean Up Our Water! Hundreds attend limited public hearing on power plant water pollution Washington, D.C. – On April 22, after more than 30 years of delay, the EPA proposed a new rule under the federal Clean Water Act that contains a variety of options for cleaning up toxic […]
Charles Goodall, 1944-2013
We mourn the passing of Charles Goodall, member of our Board of Directors since 2000. A friend to us all, a friend to our rivers, we miss him sorely. —– SIDELL – Charles William Goodall, 68, of Sidell died July 4, 2013, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago of complications from multiple myeloma. Charles was […]
