A quick roundup of our work to protect the Midwest's Environment.
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** 2021: What a year!
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Our public interest attorneys and policy experts were hard at work across the Midwest advocating, litigating, and innovating to protect our environment. Here are just a handful of things we worked on this year.
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** PRESERVING OUR WILD AND NATURAL PLACES
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** Keeping Michigan's U.P. Wild ([link removed])
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Working with more than 200 organizations from across the Upper Peninsula and Michigan in a campaign to expand Federal Wilderness areas across the region.
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** Protecting the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge ([link removed])
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Won preliminary injunction to halt a high-voltage transmission line from cutting through the Driftless Area, Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge, and other nationally protected waterways.
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** Protecting the Driftless Area ([link removed])
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Built a bipartisan coalition to support ([link removed]) investments in the Driftless Area Landscape Conservation Initiative Act in Congress to improve management of working lands, woodlands, prairies, and cold water streams in the ecologically-unique Driftless Area.
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** EXPANDING RENEWABLE ENERGY ACROSS THE REGION
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** Thinking Beyond Wires and Modernizing our Grid ([link removed])
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By incorporating modern advanced transmission technologies, the nation can move toward a cleaner, greener grid that reduces waste and relieves energy congestion.
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** Suing Iowa Utilities Board for Refusal to Evaluate MidAmerican Coal Plants ([link removed])
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Taking on a board that refused to consider evidence about the economic benefits of retiring coal plants, a move that could save Iowans $1.2 billion ([link removed]) .
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** Helped Pass Landmark Illinois Clean Energy Law ([link removed])
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Working with our coalition partners, we helped advance a landmark new energy law moving Illinois forward with clean energy, efficiency, equity, and jobs.
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** FIGHTING TO PROTECT COMMUNITIES AND PUBLIC HEALTH
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** Standing in Solidarity with Southeast Side of Chicago Against Pollution Burdens ([link removed])
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Southeast Side residents face pollution from General Iron, a metal scrapping facility, and an expanded waste dump on the lakeshore, where they were supposed to get a park ([link removed]) .
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** Connecting Communities to Technology to Understand Air Quality ([link removed])
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Partnered with Microsoft Research’s Urban Innovation team and community organizations to deploy a network of stationary air quality sensors on 100 bus shelters throughout Chicago.
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** ACCELERATING CLEAN TRANSPORTATION
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** Advocating for Thoughtful Public Transportation Funding in Chicago ([link removed])
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We advocated for RTA to use a transparent, data-driven approach that includes transit propensity, regional equity, racial equity, and more to evaluate mobility outcomes.
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** Accelerating Rollout of Electric School Buses ([link removed])
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Pushing for the rapid expansion of electric school buses in communities that need them most,like Pekin, IL. ([link removed]) Our children deserve a clean, zero-emission ride to school.
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** PROTECTING THE GREAT LAKES AND SAFE CLEAN WATER
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** Climate Crisis to Be Considered in Line 5 Tunnel Case ([link removed])
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Presented expert witnesses to demonstrate the link between the construction of a new tunnel for Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinac and climate change.
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** Cleaning Up Lake Erie ([link removed])
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Our Clean Water Act lawsuit is forcing the federal government and Ohio to finally develop a clean-up plan necessary to remedy Lake Erie’s toxic algae blooms.
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** Permanently Protected Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary ([link removed])
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This victory set national precedent leveraging protection for 10 other National Marine Sanctuaries and National Marine Monuments threatened with cuts and drilling.
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** VIRTUALLY HOSTED THOUGHT LEADERS AND EXPERTS
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** ELPC Thinks Webinars
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From U.S. Senators, scientists, authors, and advocates, we had ELPC Thinks throughout the year to dive deeper into the issues. ([link removed])
And that’s just a bit of what we’ve done together. We hope you'll close out the year with a gift ([link removed]) that will have double the impact thanks to our year-end match.
Your generosity ensures ELPC’s work to protect the environment in the Midwest will thrive in 2022 and beyond!
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