WATCH: ELPC Summer Update Video 2024

ELPC is hard at work this summer, and we’re excited to share the latest on our work protecting the environment.  Check out this video to learn more about our long-term impact to protect the Chicago River and the Great Lakes, while pursuing climate solutions such as clean energy and electric school buses.

We hope you are having a great summer and enjoying all the amazing wild & natural places the Midwest has to offer. Supporters like you make this work possible. Donate to ELPC to continue powering our environmental advocacy.

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Supreme Court

Supreme Court’s Decision on Chevron Deference is a Lemon

SCOTUS overturned the Chevron deference, a precedent that has protected Americans for decades. This means more litigation and delay – undermining federal agencies’ ability to protect the environment, public health, worker safety, and more. ELPC will explore additional methods for Midwest states to enhance regulatory safeguards at the state level.

Clean Energy

ELPC Celebrates as Hard-fought Energy Efficiency Bill Passes Ohio House

After years of work and many frustrating twists and turns, the GOP-led Ohio House of Representatives passed common sense energy efficiency legislation. HB 79 aims to ease electricity costs and reduce peak demand by providing utilities the ability to run energy efficiency programs. Now, on to the Senate!

Clean Water

ELPC & Michigan Climate Action Network Appeal Line 5 Oil Pipeline Permit

Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline is too dangerous to run through the Straits of Mackinac where an oil spill would be catastrophic to the Great Lakes. ELPC attorneys – representing ELPC and the MI Climate Action Network – filed a brief asking the Court of Appeals to reverse the Public Service Commission’s flawed order approving the pipeline plans.

News Roundup

E&E News: Deal Reached on Great Lakes Invasive Carp Project
ELPC Blog: The Midwest is On a Roll with Bus Rapid Transit
Utility Dive: Clean Energy, Environmental Groups Urge FERC to Reject PJM Grid Interconnection Plan
ELPC Blog: Timber Targets Have Environmental Consequences
Chicago Tribune: CTA Could Play a Key Role in Reducing Chicago Emissions. But First, it Will Have to Get Riders Back
Grist: A Lack of Data Hampers Efforts to Fix Racial Disparities in Utility Cutoffs
ELPC Blog: Illinois Coal Plants & The Costs of Doubling Down
Daily Herald Opinion: Keep Politics to a Minimum in Clean-Power Transition
CBS News 2: Illinois Plans to Go Carbon-Free by 2050, yet Some Municipalities Continue to Depend on Coal
Daily Herald: Illinois to Consider the ‘Future of Gas’ in Unprecedented Regulatory Proceeding
Utility Dive: Illinois Renewables Plan Encouraging Grid-Enhancing Technologies Could be National Model, Group Says

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