Prairie Rivers Network is working with citizens in Champaign and Vermilion Counties to protect clean water and our natural resources. During a June 13th meeting, citizens discussed their concerns about the negative impacts the proposed Sunrise coal mine could have on clean water, farmland, and health of residents. Read The Leader’s story about the meeting. Access a pdf of the […]
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Women Put Toxic Coal Plants on Trial in Joliet
We don’t get the power; we just get the pollution.” This was the testimony heard at the International Women and Climate Justice Tribunal held at Sacred Heart Church (Joliet, IL). Residents from Chicago’s Pilsen area and Will County heard powerful testimonies from women dealing with the fallout of air pollution generated by Midwest Generation’s coal […]
Livestock Farms to Pay Fees for EPA Enforcement
Illinois residents are hearing about the Clean Water Funding Fairness Act that passed the Illinois House and Senate on May 22. This bill makes factory farms, or CAFOs, pay an annual fee for their permits to discharge pollution; these permits are required by the federal Clean Water Act. Until now, factory farms were the only industrial […]
Starved Rock State Park at Center of Illinois Frac Sand Fight
Access pdf of this story here. The proposed mine would be located directly across the road from the park. The sand from the mine will be used for natural gas “fracking,” a controversial process used to mine greater stores of natural gas. Prairie Rivers Network and others are concerned that noise and dust from the mine will […]
LTE: Coal Company’s Plan Threat to Environment
Scott Dossett of Urbana, IL wrote a Letter to the Editor to the News-Gazette raising questions about the proposed Sunrise coal mine in Vermilion and Champaign counties. Read his Letter to the Editor (PDF form) published in the News-Gazette on May 30, 2012. Share this story!
