Please join us at the public meeting on May 8th at 6:30 pm at the UCSD Urbana plant, 1100 E. University Ave. The Urbana Champaign Sanitary District (UCSD) is considering selling large amounts of water from its Urbana and Savoy sewage treatment plants to Cronus Chemical, a company proposing a $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in […]
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After 30 Years of Inaction, EPA Finally Proposes Plans for Power Plant Water Pollution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2013 After 30 Years of Inaction, EPA Finally Proposes Plans for Power Plant Water Pollution Includes options protecting waters from toxic pollution as well as weaker standards that maintain the status quo Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a number of regulatory options late last Friday night, known […]
Ameren sued in federal court for more than 1,000 violations of Clean Air Act
More than 1,000 violations of the Clean Air Act were found at the outdated Ameren E.D. Edwards coal-fired power plant in Bartonville, IL. The data showing these opacity violations was collected by Ameren at its own facilities. Opacity is one way of measuring particle pollution. This lawsuit was brought by the Central Illinois Healthy Community Alliance, […]
Homer Rejects Selling Raw Water to Coal Mine
An update—and a good one—to our last post on Sunrise Coal’s proposed mine: In a clear victory for the Salt Fork River, Homer village trustees voted 5-0 to decline selling huge volumes of raw water for washing coal to Sunrise Coal’s proposed “Bulldog” mine. While Sunrise and its parent company Hallador Energy may continue to […]
In the News: Ameren offers plan for Illinois coal ash ponds
Environmental advocates in Illinois welcome the idea of Ameren shutting down coal ash ponds and cleaning up the sites. But they’re wary of Ameren’s proposal to simply cap the ponds and allow the coal waste to remain in the ground, especially in light of data that shows the greatest risk of groundwater contamination years after […]
