Great Rivers Environmental Law Center
Lawyers for the Environment
Category: Press Releases
DRINKING WATER AWARENESS WEEK: LET’S NOT FORGET THE EXISTING CHALLENGES
Great Rivers Environmental Law Center encourages more than just awareness during Drinking Water Awareness Week.
Read MoreGreat Rivers to host the Wild and Scenic Film Festival
Join us for an epic night of awe-inspiring films celebrating the beauty and wonder of our wild and scenic world!
Read MoreGreat Rivers Environmental Law Center Expands with Hire of Executive Director, Natalie Johnson
Johnson joins the team at an exciting time of growth as the Law Center seeks to increase its presence across the region and take more precedent-setting cases to protect human and environmental health. The center will also increase its legal staff this year.
Read More[VICTORY ALERT!] Meatpacker withdraws request to dump wastewater into Pomme de Terre River
The company informed the Missouri Department of Natural Resources last week that it was withdrawing its application for a permit to discharge water from its operations into the Pomme de Terre River.
Read MoreHold Onto Your Hogs!
VICTORY ALERT: Great Rivers successfully squashes subpoena on behalf of longtime safe-agriculture activist.
Read MoreYou’re putting THAT on your house?
Homeowners’ associations impede Missouri clean energy with policies that put aesthetics before sustainability. In the 2022 legislative session the Missouri General Assembly passed legislation that helps solar energy generation. The new law should deter homeowners’ associations from prohibiting or limiting…
Read MoreVICTORY ALERT! Progress at the PSC
Your household shouldn’t be penalized for energy conservation. We engaged the Missouri Public Service Commission to require Ameren to step up and keep costs down.
Read MoreJust Keep Swimming?
An authorization of wastewater discharge would threaten a recreational river.
Read MoreMeet Great Rivers’ 2023 Interns
From Michigan to St. Louis, our interns bring a wide array of skills and interests to our work this summer.
Read MoreThe Show Me Solar State
Ameren’s proposed solar facility would transform the energy landscape of the region.
Read MoreA Permit Written in Sand
A potentially unlawful permit was terminated after the Ste. Genevieve community raised concerns. But mining giant NexGen Silica isn’t backing down.
Read MoreTo Breathe or Not to Breathe?
The last thing polluted communities need is more pollution, yet unfortunately it’s what they often get.
Read More[UPDATED: VICTORY ALERT!] All Aboard the Grain Belt Express!
The fate of renewable energy depends on critical transmission lines. It’s time for the Missouri Public Service Commission to get on board.
Read MoreGreat Rivers Environmental Law Center and Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Send Notices of Intent to Sue Under the Clean Water Act to Two Missouri Sewage Plants for Visible Water Pollution
Water treatment facilities in rural Missouri and the state’s largest metro area both accused of violating bedrock federal environmental law.
Read MoreProtection Won for Missouri Youth
With the passage of the GET LEAD OUT OF DRINKING WATER ACT on July 1, 2022, Madeline’s work bore tremendous fruit. The bill requires any public school, private school, or provider of an early childhood education program that receives state funding to test for lead in their institution’s drinking water fixtures and to install filters to remediate those sources that are compromised.
Read MoreEarth Day Visitors Share Motivations to Protect the Environment
Thanks to the help of many wonderful volunteers, Great Rivers was represented at community events in St. Louis, Columbia, and Springfield Missouri on Earth Day 2022.
Read MoreConcerned Groups Move to Block Coal Mine Pollution From Being Dumped Into Big Muddy River
Great Rivers is representing Sierra Club Illinois and Prairie Rivers Network in an appeal of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency decision to grant a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit to Williamson Energy LLC, the owner of Pond Creek coal mine. In the newly granted permit, the IEPA declined to even consider placing a proper limit on chloride releases from the Pond Creek coal mine, despite the harmful impact excess chloride can have on wildlife in the river, and allows level of iron, sulfate and other pollutants that will harm the environment and potentially public health.
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Hyde Park Neighborhood Files Lawsuit Against Industrial Property Owners for Hazardous Conditions
The lawsuit alleges that the properties are being used in violation of the zoning code and concern buildings in disrepair, vehicles blocking sidewalk and street access and illegal dumping, and is in response to years of complaints made to the City by Hyde Park residents. Additionally, the lawsuit alleges that industrial waste, toxic chemicals and other forms of improper waste disposal at these properties are in violation of both St. Louis City ordinances and Missouri environmental laws.
Read MoreSt. Louis on the Air Features President Bruce Morrison
St. Louis on the Air host Sarah Fenske sat down with Bruce Morrison, President of Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, and Steve Taylor, press secretary for the Global Justice Ecology Project, to discuss new federal funding designated to remediate Superfund sites in Missouri. The conversation focused on the factors the EPA considers for site selection, the impact of site remediation on Missouri residents, and the importance of environmental justice and citizen advocacy.
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