The Illinois EPA will conduct a one-day household hazardous waste (HHW) collection event on September 29, 2012 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the News-Gazette Distribution Center at 3202 Apollo Drive, Champaign. Items accepted include: Oil-based paint (no latex paint, please) Household batteries Paint thinner Used motor oil Herbicides Drain cleaners Insecticides Lawn chemicals […]
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Ladies: Let’s Talk Conservation
The Women, Food and Agriculture Network, with partners Prairie Rivers Network, American Farmland Trust, and Friends of the Big Bureau Creek Watershed, are sponsoring a conservation workshop for women land owners in Bureau, Lee and LaSalle Counties. This event offers a peer-to-peer, informal discussion format which allows women landowners or managers to talk about their […]
Concerns Over Proposed Mine are Growing
Concerns continue to grow over the proposed Sunrise “Bulldog” coal mine in Vermilion County. Water is among the top concerns: where the water will come from to wash the coal, and what will happen to the polluted water once it’s used in the mine. As part of the permit process to operate a mine, coal […]
Make Ameren Stick to Deal: LTE by Traci Barkley
In this Letter to the Editor (pdf), Traci Barkley, Water Resources Scientist at Prairie Rivers Network, calls on the Illinois Pollution Control Board to deny Ameren’s request for eight more years to comply with air pollution reductions for their Newton Power Station. Ameren agreed to these reductions more than six years ago; they are scheduled […]
August RiverWeb E-news
Sign up for RiverWeb to have monthly updates emailed to you. In this edition: Eagles return to the Middle Fork Ice Cream Social, August 25 Sunrise Coal’s Bulldog Mine Fish kill on Beaver Creek Last chance to nominate a River Hero Happy hour, blogposts, and news When habitat recovers, wildlife returns! Friend and photographer David Hale, who has lived […]
