For Immediate Release Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 Asian Carp: Leaping Faster to Lake Michigan Than the Solutions to Stop Them CHICAGO – The leading edge of the Asian carp invasion in Illinois has advanced dramatically, with spawning moving nearly 100 miles upstream this year to within 25 miles of an electric barrier that is the […]
Press Releases
Press Release: Tax Dollars Subsidizing Destruction of Upper Mississippi River
Time for Congress to Focus on River Health, Not Corporate Welfare Rock Island, IL – The locks and dams on the Upper Mississippi River have significantly damaged – and continue to degrade – the Mississippi River. This infrastructure is the most heavily subsidized of all the private transportation industries and it is one of the […]
Press Release: Peoria Group Calls for Protection of Illinois River from Toxic Coal Pollution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 7, 2013 Contact: Joyce Blumenshine, Sierra Club Heart of Illinois Group, joblumen@yahoo.com, (309) 678-1011 Traci Barkley, Prairie Rivers Network, tbarkley@prairierivers.org, (217) 621-3013 Central Illinois Healthy Community Alliance Urges Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to Protect the Illinois River Public Hearing Held on Water Pollution Discharged by Ameren’s E.D. Edwards Coal Plant […]
2013 Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone the Size of Connecticut
Today, Prairie Rivers Network and other members of the Mississippi River Collaborative issued news releases about the size of the 2013 Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone. Please see our news release below and contact Stacy James (217-344-2371) if you have any questions. Connecticut-Sized 2013 Gulf “Dead Zone” Signifies the Need for Cleaner Water in Illinois CHAMPAIGN, IL […]
Citizens to EPA: Clean Up Our Water!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Citizens to EPA: Clean Up Our Water! Hundreds attend limited public hearing on power plant water pollution Washington, D.C. – On April 22, after more than 30 years of delay, the EPA proposed a new rule under the federal Clean Water Act that contains a variety of options for cleaning up toxic […]
