Midwest Communities Rally for Climate Action at Chicago EPA Listening Session Friday, November 8, 2013Contact: Emily Rosenwasser, Emily.Rosenwasser@sierraclub.org, 312-251-1680 x119 CHICAGO – Today hundreds of residents from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin testified at the regional Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office in Chicago, calling on officials to enact the strongest possible limits on carbon pollution from […]
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Federal Judge Gives EPA 60 Days to Set Deadline for Coal Ash Regulations
EPA proposed first-ever federal regulations in 2010, little movement since then October 29, 2013 Washington, D.C. – A federal judge issued a memorandum today in a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to finalize federal coal ash regulations. The Court gave the EPA 60 days to “file a written submission with this Court setting […]
Court-Ordered Coal Ash Protections to Benefit Illinois Communities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 3, 2013 Court-Ordered Coal Ash Protections to Benefit Illinois Communities Federal Court Orders EPA to Move Forward on Coal Ash Rules Washington, D.C. – A federal judge agreed with environmental and public health groups that the Environmental Protection Agency needs to set federal regulations for the safe and proper disposal of toxic coal […]
Press Release: Peoria Group Calls for Protection of Illinois River from Toxic Coal Pollution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 7, 2013 Contact: Joyce Blumenshine, Sierra Club Heart of Illinois Group, joblumen@yahoo.com, (309) 678-1011 Traci Barkley, Prairie Rivers Network, tbarkley@prairierivers.org, (217) 621-3013 Central Illinois Healthy Community Alliance Urges Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to Protect the Illinois River Public Hearing Held on Water Pollution Discharged by Ameren’s E.D. Edwards Coal Plant […]
Citizens to EPA: Clean Up Our Water!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Citizens to EPA: Clean Up Our Water! Hundreds attend limited public hearing on power plant water pollution Washington, D.C. – On April 22, after more than 30 years of delay, the EPA proposed a new rule under the federal Clean Water Act that contains a variety of options for cleaning up toxic […]
