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Hold Onto Your Hogs!

VICTORY ALERT: Great Rivers successfully squashes subpoena on behalf of longtime safe-agriculture activist.  

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VICTORY 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. 

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Just Keep Swimming?

An authorization of wastewater discharge would threaten a recreational river. 

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Meet Great Rivers’ 2023 Summer Interns!

From Michigan to St. Louis, our interns bring a wide array of skills and interests to our work this summer.

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The Show Me Solar State 

Ameren’s proposed solar facility would transform the energy landscape of the region. 

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A 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.

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To Breathe or Not to Breathe?

Free factory pollution image

The last thing polluted communities need is more pollution, yet unfortunately it’s what they often get.

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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.

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Great 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.

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Protection 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.   

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Cleaning Up the Hyde Park Neighborhood

Great Rivers is working to improve the quality of life in St. Louis’s Hyde Park Neighborhood.

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An Update From Our Sustainable Lands Program

We are fighting to close illegal roads in Ozark National Scenic Riverways and opposing a proposed mine along the Eleven Point River.

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How to Make the Most of Nature: Activities and Outings for Families to Prevent Nature-Deficit Disorder

Spending time in nature has proven to be a lifesaver during the pandemic — after all, exploring local parks, hiking trails, or even just relaxing in your backyard are all safe ways to escape being stuck inside while maintaining social distancing guidelines. But as it turns out, being outside has a whole host of physical and mental health benefits that will last long after COVID has passed.

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Great Rivers Environmental Law Center Selected to Best Law Firms in America 2021

Best Lawyers®, the oldest and most highly respected peer review guide to excellence in the legal profession, has named Great Rivers Environmental Law Center to its 2021 edition of The Best Law Firms in America in the practice area of Environmental Litigation.

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Success! Subsidized Development of 2,409 acres Abutting Wetlands and Creve Coeur Park CANCELLED

When environmental concerns about the development seemed to fall on deaf ears, Great Rivers attorneys Bob Menees and Sarah Rubenstein raised important issues about the legality of the proposed plan.

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