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 […]
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Proposed New Strip Mine Threatens Drinking Water
Illinois EPA Proposes to Allow Serial Polluter to Operate New Coal Strip Mine Upstream of Canton Lake Help residents protect their drinking water and ask state regulators to do their jobs – sign the petition now! Residents in Canton are worried about their drinking water. Unfortunately, they have good reason to be. Canton Lake, Copperas Creek, […]
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 […]
Public Hearing: Close Dynegy’s High Hazard Coal Ash Dumps in Havana!
Ask Illinois EPA and Dynegy’s Havana Power Plant for responsible coal ash disposal and closure of high hazard ash ponds. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has tentatively decided to reissue a permit to Dynegy’s Havana Power Plant that would allow additional mercury and other harmful pollution found in coal ash to be discharged into the […]
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 […]
