Do you know a volunteer who is working hard to protect the state’s rivers and streams? Help celebrate and elevate their important work with a nomination for our 8th annual River Steward Award. The deadline is August 20, 2012. It is time once again to celebrate the important work of an individual whose on the ground […]
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Stakeholder Meeting Announced for June 13th in Homer
Public meeting to discuss concerns with proposed Vermilion Mine and next steps FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6.5. 2012 Homer, IL – Champaign and Vermilion county residents, landowners and farmers will hold a meeting to discuss the threats and next steps in addressing the proposed coal mine in Vermilion County.
Livestock Farms to Pay Fees for EPA Enforcement
Illinois residents are hearing about the Clean Water Funding Fairness Act that passed the Illinois House and Senate on May 22. This bill makes factory farms, or CAFOs, pay an annual fee for their permits to discharge pollution; these permits are required by the federal Clean Water Act. Until now, factory farms were the only industrial […]
Press Release: Controlling Access to the Press – Sunrise Coal’s Latest Deception
June 5, 2012 Sunrise Coal seeks to keep Village of Homer public officials from talking to reporters. Homer, IL – Citizens seeking to protect their water resources from being wasted by coal mining activities learned that Sunrise has tried to prevent our elected officials from talking to the local press, thereby limiting citizens’ access to […]
Starved Rock State Park at Center of Illinois Frac Sand Fight
Access pdf of this story here. The proposed mine would be located directly across the road from the park. The sand from the mine will be used for natural gas “fracking,” a controversial process used to mine greater stores of natural gas. Prairie Rivers Network and others are concerned that noise and dust from the mine will […]
