May 10, 2022 | Press Release
Today, PRN and Sierra Club Illinois announced they are appealing the IEPA’s decision to grant a NPDES to the owner of the Pond Creek coal mine.
Pollution
EPA Says Let Polluters Pollute
April 27, 2020 | Blog Post
A new EPA policy gives polluters the green light to forgo monitoring of emissions and regular testing of equipment vital to worker and public safety.
Affordable Clean Energy Rule Would Increase Pollution & Illness
August 22, 2018 | Blog Post
The EPA has announced the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule as a replacement for the 2015 Obama era Clean Power Plan (CPP). The resulting change will mean more harmful pollution released into our atmosphere.
A Middle Fork Mystery With No Dam Solution
May 8, 2017 | Blog Post
Two weeks ago, we posted a story about a mysterious discharge on the Middle Fork brought to our attention by some canoers. Following that story, some hikers reached out to PRN to corroborate the report. They were hiking in the area that day and noticed the same tributary flowing extremely fast and milky white. They followed the tributary upstream to a junction where two smaller tributaries meet to form the one that flows into the Middle Fork. The tributary to the east flowed fast and full of sediment while the tributary to the west was just a trickle.
A Mysterious Discharge on the Middle Fork
April 27, 2017 | Blog Post
University and middle school students were canoeing on the Middle Fork this week on an educational field trip when they noticed something that seemed out of place. One of the small tributaries to the Middle Fork was flowing faster than any of the canoers had seen before, and it was flowing thick with milky white sediment. Upstream of this tributary, the water was perfectly clear, but downstream, the entire Middle Fork was cloudy and opaque.
