New Report Released Today Listen to audio of the press conference. In a new report released today titled “Illinois at Risk: Lax Safeguards and No Enforcement Endanger the Water, Air & Lives of Residents Near State’s Numerous Coal Ash Dumps” Prairie Rivers Network and the Environmental Integrity Project document new groundwater data and profiles of […]
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Rally Against Coal Ash Pollution in Joliet–August 17
Bag It – Is your life too plastic?
Prairie Rivers Network invites all of our members and friends to a special showing of Bag It. Bag It started as a documentary about plastic bags and evolved into a wholesale investigation into plastics and their effect on our waterways, oceans, and even our bodies. Prairie Rivers Network would like to give a very special thanks […]
Calling for River Steward Award Nominations
Do you know a volunteer who is working hard to protect the state’s rivers and streams? Kathy Andria Accepting 2010 River Steward Award Help celebrate and elevate their important work by nominating them for our 7th annual River Steward Award. Deadline is September 9, 2011. It is time once again to celebrate and elevate the […]
Rural residents rally against proposed giant hog farm
In early June 2011, Prairie Rivers Network was contacted by a McDonough County resident facing the prospect of soon becoming the unwilling neighbor of 18,000 hogs. He was calling for help because he feared the air, streams, and wells in his rural community would become polluted by a proposed hog farm called Shamrock Acres. He […]
