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.
Working with more than 200 organizations from across the Upper Peninsula and Michigan in a campaign to expand Federal Wilderness areas across the region.
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.
Built a bipartisan coalition to support 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.
By incorporating modern advanced transmission technologies, the nation can move toward a cleaner, greener grid that reduces waste and relieves energy congestion.
Working with our coalition partners, we helped advance a landmark new energy law moving Illinois forward with clean energy, efficiency, equity, and jobs.
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.
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.
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.
Pushing for the rapid expansion of electric school buses in communities that need them most, like Pekin, IL. Our children deserve a clean, zero-emission ride to school.
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.
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.
This victory set national precedent leveraging protection for 10 other National Marine Sanctuaries and National Marine Monuments threatened with cuts and drilling.
And that’s just a bit of what we’ve done together. We hope you'll close out the year with a gift 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!
PRESERVING OUR WILD AND NATURAL PLACES
EXPANDING RENEWABLE ENERGY ACROSS THE REGION
FIGHTING TO PROTECT COMMUNITIES AND PUBLIC HEALTH
ACCELERATING CLEAN TRANSPORTATION
PROTECTING THE GREAT LAKES AND SAFE CLEAN WATER
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