For Immediate Release Feb. 10, 2014 Environmental Catastrophe Warns of Coal Ash Hazards in Illinois CHICAGO — Last week a Duke Energy coal ash pit in North Carolina breached and released up to 27 million gallons of polluted water and over 82,000 tons of ash, resulting in the third largest coal ash spill in U.S. […]
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Press Release: EPA agrees to deadline for first-ever US coal ash regulations
Editor’s Note: Better late than never but too bad that it took a lawsuit and judge’s ruling to get us to where leadership at EPA should have had us years ago. Residents in Illinois communities such as Marion, Joliet, Venice, Oakwood, Havana, Alton , Powerton, Hennepin, Hutsonville, Canton, Wood River and Coffeen, have seen what […]
Concerned about proposed Bulldog mine, area residents pack the room to learn more
Over two dozen concerned residents from Allerton, Broadlands, Catlin, Champaign/Urbana, Homer, Longview, Ogden, Sidell and St. Joseph met on January 8th in Homer to discuss Sunrise Coal’s proposed coal mine in Vermilion County. Folks that have opposed this project since the beginning, including members of Stand Up to Coal (SUTC), joined with new faces to […]
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 […]
Rocky Branch residents say NO to expanded strip mine
Prairie Rivers Network is supporting “Justice for Rocky Branch,” a strong group of residents fighting back against Peabody Energy’s plan to grow their strip mine in Saline County into the Rocky Branch community, near the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. This mine would destroy over 1,000 more acres in an area already riddled with […]
