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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After an Indiana steel mill polluted Lake Michigan, ELPC filed a lawsuit to hold the owners accountable. Cleveland-Cliffs must now pay massive fines, fix operational deficiencies, and create local environmentally beneficial projects.
Just as you can finance a car or a fridge, you should be able to finance rooftop solar. ELPC and partners broke down a barrier to clean energy in Wisconsin when the Public Service Commission agreed that “third-party ownership” is legal to finance rooftop solar.
The Michigan Public Service Commission rejected new fees for solar customers, greenlit low-income EV rebates, and launched an innovative new way to get electric buses into communities across the state.
ELPC is working to connect renewables to the grid quickly without sacrificing habitats and communities. The key is to select transmission projects with better siting plans in the first place.
We’re working with strong coalitions in Michigan and Illinois to expand Federal Wilderness areas in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois.
A federal District Court agreed that the Cardinal-Hickory Creek Transmission Line should not run through the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
The Union Station Access Project launched this year with broad coalition support. The $418 million proposal will strengthen the Midwest’s passenger rail hub and improve regional service.
Thanks to ELPC & allies advocacy, Midwest school districts won nearly 400 Electric School Buses in the first round of the EPA’s historic Clean School Bus Program.
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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!
We're all in to protect the Midwest's environment.
Founded in 1993, the Environmental Law & Policy Center is the Midwest's leading environmental legal advocacy organization. We advocate, innovate, and litigate to protect the Midwest's environment from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains.
IT'S GIVING SEASON
PROTECTING THE GREAT LAKES & SAFE CLEAN WATER
ADVANCING RENEWABLE ENERGY ACROSS THE REGION
PRESERVING OUR WILD & NATURAL PLACES
ACCELERATING CLEAN TRANSPORTATION
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