Please contact LaSalle County Board members and tell them to protect Starved Rock by not permitting the sand mine. If you have time for just one call, the board chair is Jerry Hicks, 815-795-2608. A proposed sand mine adjacent to Starved Rock State Park could drain a rare, brackish wetland, with high quality plant communities […]
Action Alerts
Action Alert: National Coal Ash Call-In Day
CALL TODAY – November 9, 2011 Our last hope for EPA to protect us from coal ash pollution lies in our U.S. Senators hands. Coal ash is contaminating our groundwater because it is not disposed of safely. In fact, Illinois has more cases of contaminated groundwater from coal ash than any other state. Call Senators […]
Another preventable coal ash disaster!
Just two weeks after the House of Representatives caved to the coal industry and voted to strip the EPA of the authority to protect Americans from coal ash, a retaining bluff collapsed on Monday, October 31, at the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant in Wisconsin, sending toxic coal ash spewing into Lake Michigan, a drinking […]
Critical Vote on Coal Ash Pollution — Updated
***UPDATE 10/14/2011*** This afternoon H.R. 2273 passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 267-144. Illinois Representatives who voted to take away EPA’s ability to implement commonsense safeguards to protect communities and their waters from coal ash pollution include: Rep. Peter Roskam (R. 6th) Rep. Joe Walsh (R. 8th) Rep. Robert Dold (R. 10th) […]
Please Attend a Public Comment Session for the Wabash River Strategic Plan
Your input is important! Who: Illinois Lieutenant Governor’s Office and Prairie Rivers Network What: Public comment session for the Wabash River Strategic Plan When: Monday, October 17th, 2011, 5:30-7:30 PM Where: Danville Public Library, 319 N. Vermilion St. Danville, IL 61832 Earlier this year, the Office of the Lieutenant Governor partnered with the National Great […]
