About Us

The Environmental Law & Policy Center is the Midwest’s leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. We develop and lead successful strategic environmental advocacy campaigns to improve environmental quality and protect our natural heritage. We are public interest environmental entrepreneurs who engage in creative business deal making with diverse interests to put into practice our belief that environmental progress and economic development can be achieved together. ELPC’s multidisciplinary staff of talented and experienced public interest attorneys, environmental business specialists, public policy advocates, and communications specialists brings a strong and effective combination of skills to solve environmental problems and improve the quality of life in our Midwestern communities.

Our staff

ELPC’s multidisciplinary staff of public interest attorneys, M.B.A. financial analysts, public policy advocates and communications specialists bring a strong and effective combination of skills to solve environmental problems. We are “public interest environmental entrepreneurs,” identifying opportunities to improve environmental quality in the Midwest and then working actively to develop and achieve the potential benefits. We also provide key legal and technical resources to local environmental groups through a combination of legal representation, economic analysis and public policy research. Meet the staff.

Our track record

ELPC advocacy produced several major wins in 2007; click here to learn more about our track record and awards.

Our leadership

ELPC is led by a board with diverse expertise and backgrounds, including law, real estate, polling and market research, banking, philanthropy, politics and venture capital. Click here to meet ELPC’s board.

ELPC Science Advisory Council

ELPC created a volunteer Science Advisory Council in order to access expertise of top-rate scientists, obtain their guidance and scientific thinking, and expand our networks to reach out to other scientists and graduate students who can help us on a pro bono basis for projects where their specific knowledge is needed.

ELPC’s senior program staff and board meet with the members of the Science Advisory Council twice each year to strategize and infuse up-to-date scientific thinking into ELPC’s key strategic legal, eco-business and policy decisionmaking process. Meet the Council.