Based on ELPC’s Charity Navigator score on financial strength and management, ELPC is being recognized in the media as among “The 10 Highest-Rated Charities in America: 2011.” ELPC is the only environmental group and the only advocacy group on this list. Moreover, ELPC is the only listed group, which is located between the coasts. Read more on MSN Money and Main Street.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Midwest Energy News examines the advancements of biofuel development stimulated by BCAP, and the challenges facing the program. Capturing the real life experience of Steve Flick, the founder of the Show Me Energy Cooperative, the story illustrates the promises and the hurdles in developing clean, home grown fuels.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Progressive Farmer takes a look at new lawsuits filed against the U.S. EPA for failing to enact pollution-control standards on agriculture. Read the article.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Dozens of coal-fired power plants across the United States are facing closure over the next few years. Many communities are actively engaged in planning what is next for these sites. Each closing poses challenges and opportunities. Kari Lydersen examines the issues and takes a look at what is happening in Chicago in Midwest Energy News. Read the story.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Mark Schleifstein of the New Orleans Times-Picayune covered the filing of two law suits against the EPA by the Mississippi River Coalition. The Coalition, of which ELPC is a member, wants the EPA to set numeric standards for nitrogen and phosphorus levels in the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and wants to the agency to revisit wastewater treatment standards. Nitrogen and phosphorus are pollutants that contribute to the dead zone that emerges in the Gulf of Mexico each spring. Read the story.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
The Des Moines Register ran a great profile of new ELPC Des Moines-based Staff Attorney Josh Mandelbaum. Read the profile.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
In a Feb. 8 article from Progress Illinois, ELPC Executive Director Howard Learner discusses a new report that calls for reversing the flow of the Chicago River to curb the invasion of Asian Carp into the Great Lakes.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
“Separating the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River Basin is a key step to protect both the ecological and economic value of the Great Lakes,” Environmental Law and Policy Center director Howard Learner said in a news release. “More than 30 million people live in the Great Lakes Basin and rely on its abundance of freshwater, which is under increasing threat from Asian carp and other invasive species.”
Monday, January 23, 2012
This Public News Service article quotes ELPC Executive Director Howard Learner and discusses ELPC’s new affiliate website, PlugInChicagoMetro.org.
Monday, January 23, 2012
ELPC Executive Director Howard Learner told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “Consumers should not be asked to pay for $1 billion of new transmission lines running through Wisconsin’s North Woods, without a full and fair review of alternatives that might save money and prevent the disruption of key habitats and natural areas.” Read the article.
Monday, January 23, 2012
According to this Jan. 22nd article in the Chicago Tribune: “Illinois’ largest single corporate polluter is Midwest Generation, the company that owns the Crawford and Fisk coal plants in Chicago and four more in the suburbs of Joliet, Romeoville and Waukegan and in Pekin in central Illinois. Burning coal from Wyoming and other Western states, the plants emitted more than 31 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2010, an amount equivalent to the tailpipe emissions of about 6 million cars.” Read the article.
EPA Hearings on Greenhouse Gas Standards for New Coal Plants
