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USDA unlawfully cut off farmers approved for federal solar funding

ELPC Commends Senate for Advancing Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Reauthorization

New Fuel Economy Standards Raise Costs, Increase Emissions

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

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Senate Bill Would Codify Worst of Trump Administration Rollbacks of Water Protections

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A Double-Barrel Threat to Public Health: EPA Rolls Back Standards While Data Centers Fuel a Midwest Gas Plant Boom

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The Workers Powering the Midwest’s Clean Energy Future

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Governor Whitmer Is Right: Michigan Must Consider Alternatives to Line 5

UPDATE

D.C. Circuit Rules Trump’s DOE Illegally Forced J.H. Campbell Coal Plant to Keep Running

UPDATE

The Biggest Clean Water Rollback Yet

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Iowa farmers say USDA reneged on solar funding, leaving them the bill

Des Moines Register

Water quality and cancer are top of mind for many Iowa voters. This new coalition is calling for change

Iowa Public Radio

Experts: Federal energy regulatory actions will impact NWI

NW Indiana Post-Tribune

Rural landowners take Wahpeton water sale dispute to court

Jamestown Sun

E.P.A. Moves to Curb Public Input on Data Centers

New York Times

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.

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

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