FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5.10.2012 Stakeholders and Residents Invited to Public Meeting May 23rd, 7:00 pm at Homer Lake’s Salt Fork Center to Discuss Concerns Homer, IL – Representatives of Champaign and Vermilion county residents, including stakeholders along the Salt Fork of the Vermilion River, held a press conference today to highlight questions that have been […]
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Press release: Illinois Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Biased Coal Curriculum in Schools
5.3.2012 For Immediate Release Statewide Alliance Calls for End to Subsidies and Misinformation Springfield – Supporters of the Heartland Coalfield Alliance, a statewide coalition of community and environmental organizations, held a rally outside the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today, calling on the Department to stop what the group calls a waste […]
Help Protect the Shawnee National Forest from a Strip Mine
THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU Local residents and river enthusiasts from across the country recently spoke up for the Shawnee National Forest by submitting thousands of comments urging the Forest Service not to let Peabody Coal turn part of the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois into a strip mine. According […]
Prairie Rivers Network & Community Groups File Lawsuit for Federal Coal Ash Protections
Today Prairie Rivers Network joined with national partners, Earthjustice, Environmental Integrity Project, Physicians for Social Responsibility and other state-based environmental protection organizations in filing a lawsuit to finalize national standards for coal ash disposal. This is critical for Illinois because while our state generates 4.4 million tons of coal ash every year, and imports coal […]
Press Release: Delayed Coal Ash Protections Put Public Health at Risk
PRESS RELEASE ISSUED: January 18, 2012 Contacts: Sandra Diaz, Appalachian Voices Diana Dascalu-Joffe, Chesapeake Climate Action Network Jared Saylor, Earthjustice Eric Schaeffer, Environmental Integrity Project Hartwell Carson, French Broad Riverkeeper Mary Love, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth Anne Hedges, Montana Environmental Information Center Barb Gottlieb, Physicians for Social Responsibility Traci Barkley, Prairie Rivers Network Sean Sarah, Sierra […]
