The Urbana Champaign Sanitary District (UCSD) is seeking to sell water to Cronus Chemical for use in a proposed fertilizer plant. Under the agreement, the equivalent of 6.3 million gallons of effluent per day would be piped to Tuscola and no longer discharged to the Saline Branch or the Copper Slough. The District is taking […]
Emergency Action Saves Illinois Land From Dangerous Logging For Peabody Coal Mine
Local Residents’ Appeal Stops Peabody Energy From Destroying Woods, Polluting Water For Immediate Release Wednesday January 15, 2014 HARRISBURG, Ill. – The Sierra Club, Prairie Rivers Network and local citizens’ group Justice for Rocky Branch are applauding an emergency action by the U.S. Office of Surface Mining (OSM) to halt illegal logging and land clearing […]
Study: Physical Barrier Most Effective Way to Stop Invasive Species from Ravaging Great Lakes, Mississippi River
For Immediate Release: January 7, 2014 Study: Physical Barrier Most Effective Way to Stop Invasive Species from Ravaging Great Lakes, Mississippi River CHICAGO – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has identified physically separating the Mississippi River and Great Lakes watersheds as the most effective way to prevent aquatic invasive species like Asian carp from […]
The Salt Fork: Wrapping up 2013, Looking toward 2014
Beautiful photos of the Salt Fork River (taken by PRN member Sue Smith). This is why we work to protect the Salt Fork River from water withdrawals for coal washing and industrial cooling, water pollution from a proposed coal mine and habitat degradation from drainage clearing. Congratulations to everyone who has been involved in successfully […]
Santa carp is comin’ to town…
Ok, let’s hope not… Early January, 2014 will see the release of a long-awaited federal study about how to stop Asian carp. We will need to muster support for separation of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds – the best, most permanent solution to the transfer of all invasive species through the Chicago waterways. […]
