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Protecting Clean Water

ELPC Sues to Protect Seven Iowa Waterways Impaired by Nitrates

ELPC Sues to Fight Climate Endangerment

3 Clean Energy Priorities for Midwest Data Centers

We advocate, innovate, and litigate to protect the Midwest’s environment from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains.

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Save & Fix Chicago's Intercity Bus Station

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Environmental Litigators Conference Brings Together Midwest Defenders

UPDATE

Why Consumer's Proposed Dam Sale is Bad for Michigan

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ELPC Receives American Bar Association Award

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ELPC & Partners Challenge Silver Branch Logging in Upper Peninsula

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Creating a New Lakefront Park from Industrial Past

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Important Victory

From Toxic Dump to Future Park: A Landmark Victory for Chicago’s Southeast Side

This is a victory for protecting environmental justice communities, for protecting Lake Michigan and our clean drinking water, and for transforming industrial sites into new lakefront parks.

We’re all in to protect the Midwest’s environment.

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