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Environmental Law & Policy Center
@elpcenter.bsky.social
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We advocate, innovate, and litigate to protect the Midwest’s environment.
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After years of advocacy, the toxic waste dump adjacent to Calumet Park is becoming new lakefront parkland—a major win for environmental justice and the Southeast Side.
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Congress is considering the PERMIT Act (H.R. 3898), a bill that would weaken the Clean Water Act and make it easier for polluters to dump PFAS, pesticides, and other toxic chemicals into our waters.

Tell your Representative to vote NO.

Take action: https://bit.ly/4lMumDs
August 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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🎒TODAY ONLY: Make a gift and enter to win a $500+ Patagonia adventure bundle! And all donations MATCHED as part of ELPC’s $30,000 Summer Match

Donate and enter to win: secure.elpc.org/forms/elpc-p...
August 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The #ELPCGala is in full swing at Navy Pier! A powerful night celebrating the people and partnerships driving climate action in the Midwest.
June 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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We're proud to be a part #SRI2025 in Chicago! Join us on June 16–19, 2025 to explore sustainable solutions for the world's most pressing challenges.

Check it out & register: sricongress.org
June 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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As a proud member of the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition, we're glad to see so many important voices come together in support of public transportation.
We're getting down to the wire in Springfield, please tell your legislators to save transit tonight secure.everyaction.com/R2w3AjTVD0Cr...
Labor, environmental, and transit advocates join forces to call on lawmakers to Reform and invest $1.5 Billion in public transit. Photo of a train, followed by the logos for the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition and the Labor Alliance for Public Transportation
June 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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With just 30 days until the end of the legislative session, time is running out to save public transit in IL! We need a $1.5 billion investment AND significant reforms to ensure our transit system works for everyone. #TransitIsEssential
Urge your lawmaker to take action: win.newmode.net/icjc/mma
May 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Join us May 21 for #ClimateActionLobbyDay! Together our coalition will urge legislators to accelerate climate and equity goals for #PublicTransit, #GreenBuildings, and our #PowerGrid.

🌳May 21, 2025
🏛️Springfield, IL
📝Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
In front of an illustration of Earth on fire, the text reads Climate Action Lobby Day May 21, Springfield, IL
April 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Imagine a bright future for sustainable transportation & #PassengerRail in Ohio!
✍️Submit your ideas for Ohio's long-range multi-modal state transportation plan here publicinput.com/v54281
🗣️Or attend a public meeting with @AllAboardOhio
www.allaboardohio.org/meetings-eve...
April 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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In Wisconsin, @GovEvers new state budget includes increased funding for passenger rail, but it needs your support to pass. Tell them why more trains matter!
❗Attend a public meeting next week: Hayward today! or Wausau 4/29
✍️Submit written comment by 4/29 legis.wisconsin.gov/topics/budge...
April 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Eliminating states’ #CleanerCars & #CleanerTrucks standards will:
⛽ Force Americans to pay more for gas
😷 Harm air quality and health
🛠️ Cede auto manufacturing leadership to other countries
Learn more: elpc.org/wp-content/u...
Top of a coalition letter reads: April 21, 2025. Re: Oppose CRA Attacks on Clean Air and Public Health. Dear Members of Congress, We, the undersigned 127 health, business, labor, environmental, consumer, and science organizations urge you to vote NO on congressional review act (CRA) resolutions that aim to overturn Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT), Advanced Clean Cars II (ACCII), and Heavy-Duty Omnibus (DO) preemption waivers (J.J. Res. 87, H.R. Res. 88, H.J. Res. 89). These critical clean air standards, previously granted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are essential for reducing toxic air pollution, protecting public health, and cutting climate-damaging emissions.
April 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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For generations, Chicago has treated the South and West Sides as “sacrifice zones." But a new ordinance would reform the industrial siting practices that exacerbated environmental disparities. #EarthDayCIO
New ELPC blog on the Hazel M. Johnson Ordinance elpc.org/blog/new-ord...
A diverse group of advocates stands in front of Chicago's City Hall holding a sign that reads "Stop Environmental Racism." The text below says Take Action: Cumulative Impacts Ordinance: End Sacrifice Zones in Chicago. Reform Industrial Siting Practices: A critical step towards equality, accountability, and a healthier future for all Chicagoans. Tell your Alder to pass the Hazel M. Johnson Ordinance. Take Action here: https://elpc.org/take-action/
April 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Wetlands are amazing — acting as nature’s water filter, they protect our homes from floods and help fight waterborne diseases. But #SCOTUS rolled back #CleanWater protections. It's time for Illinois to step up when DC steps back! #twill

Take Action: secure.everyaction.com/uYbkLLzZG0iM...
Overlaid on a photo of trees surrounded by water, the text reads Take Action: protect Wetlands in Illinois
April 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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This Earth Day (April 22), take action! Join us at the water permit renewal public hearing for the BP Whiting Refinery. It’s time to support our #GreatLakes.

📍 6 p.m. Whiting, Indiana
📧 Send written comments by May 9
🌊 Fight for #CleanWater
April 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Is an e-bike on your wish list? Today is your lucky day! ELPC is giving away a Radio Flyer™ Folding Cargo E-bike.
Donate today for a chance to win (retail value: $1,399!). PLUS, your donation will be TRIPLE MATCHED for #EarthMonth! 🌎
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Environmental Law & Policy Center Earth Day 2025. Want to win this e-bike? image shows a red folding long-tail cargo bike. Donate for a chance to win this Radio Flyer Folding Cargo E-bIke for Earth Day!
April 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The Midwest has a future worth fighting for!
Please join us at ELPC’s annual gala to support our work to protect the Midwest’s environment from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains.

🌎 ELPC Gala 2025
🌆 Offshore Rooftop - Navy Pier
🕠 June 6th, 5:30pm

elpc.org/events/2025g...
April 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Join ELPC May 7-8 at the @rideillinois.bsky.social Illinois Bike & Walk Summit in Springfield!
The event brings together professionals and advocates to collaborate on sustainable solutions to make communities more walkable & bikeable. REGISTER: rideillinois.org/events/2025-...
Logo for the Illinois Bike & Walk Summit in Springfield on May 7-8, 2025, includes icons of a person walking, a bicycle, and a person cheering within a bike chain shaped like the state of Illinois
April 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Our environmental values are facing unprecedented threats. We’re launching a $25,000 TRIPLE MATCH for Earth Day and we need you in this fight.

✅ Every $1 you donate = $3 for ELPC to fight for #cleanair, #cleanwater, and #climate action.

Donate today: t.co/M7g2vrKm9B
In front of a photograph looking up to the sky through a bunch of pine trees, the text reads Environmental Law & Policy Center $25,000 Earth Day Triple Match! Only until April 22nd! Donate
April 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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🚨Take Action! Support #PassengerRail in Wisconsin🚉
@govevers.wisconsin.gov budget proposal increases rail funding, but needs support to pass!

🗣️ Attend a public meeting in Kaukauna 4/2, West Allis 4/4, Hayward 4/28, Wausau 4/29

📝 Submit written comment by 4/29
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Underneath a picture of an Amtrak train, the text reads Get Involved, Passenger Rail Expansion in Wisconsin: New Budget to Push Rail. Show Support for Governor Evers State Budget for FY 26 & 27. Send written comments by April 29, 2025 at the link below. Attend a public meeting in Kaukauna on April 2nd, West Allis on April 4th, Hayward on April 28th, and Wausau on April 29th.
April 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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“Everybody pays a price when wetlands are lost, but those who live downstream will pay highest costs. Plaintiff is not a farmer & does not speak for family farmers who believe that Swampbuster is fair, makes sense, & is worth protecting.”
-ELPC Staff Attorney Katie Garvey.
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ELPC Staff Attorney Katie Garvey stands on the steps of the federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is wearing black professional clothing, smiling with her arms crossed, standing on the bottom step. A beautiful wetland in Iowa illustrates the stakes of this case. The varied topography includes layers of grasses, mosses, water, trees, and shrubs.
March 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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⚡️Serious warning!⚡️Budget cuts to @noaa.gov and @nws.noaa.gov will put lives at risk. Without critical data, forecasts will be less accurate & severe weather notifications delayed. Catch a peek at our conversation with @wgntv.com Meteorologist Emeritus Tom Skilling
March 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Back for more transit witness slips, this time in the House!

Illinois deserves a world-class #PublicTransit system that makes it safer, faster, & easier to get where you’re going. By Wed Mar 19, tell your State Rep we need funding & reform.

Here’s how: elpc.org/blog/take-ac...
Under a photo of people waiting for the bus, the text reads "Take Action, Save Public Transit in Illinois: Fill out a witness slip for HB1833 (the MMA). Deadline March 19, 2025, Illinois state house transportation hearing on public transit. Make it safer, faster, & easier to get where you're going. Tell your state representative we need transit funding & reform."
March 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Join us with @budzinski.house.gov to talk about the @houseagdems.bsky.social committee and the Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition, where she founded the Climate Jobs Task Force.

🏛️ Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski
🗓️ Thursday, March 27
🕚 11:00 AM CT

REGISTER: elpc.org/events/elpc-...
Flyer for an event features a photo of a blonde woman smiling in a red shirt in front of an American flag. Text reads "ELPC Thinks Webinar in conversation with congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Thursday, March 27, 2025, 11:00AM CT. Register"
March 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The Trump EPA rollbacks are turning back the clock by attacking bedrock protections for healthy #cleanair and safe #cleanwater in our communities. We will fight back.
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Black and white photograph of the White House overlaid with text that reads News: The Trump EPA's Rollbacks are Weakening Vital Clean Air, Water Safeguards. and a quote "The Trump EPA is turning back the clock by attacking bedrock protections for healthy clean air and safe clean water in our communities."
March 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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This Wednesday! Come support frontline communities to stop sacrifice zones. #EJ leaders have fought for a cumulative impacts ordinance for years, let's help make it a reality.
📢 9am Wednesday 3/9/25
🌲 Wear green to rally!
🏛️ Outside Chicago City Hall, N LaSalle entrance
For several decades, Chicago's frontline communities have organized and advocated for better living conditions to improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods. Segregation and environmental racism continuously harm Chicago's most vulnerable communities through sacrifice zones created by industry, putting our health and future generations at risk. In May 2022, the City of Chicago, alongside community leaders and organizations, began the Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA)-a citywide initiative to understand how environmental burdens and other stressors impact neighborhoods differently. In 2023, the City of Chicago, in collaboration with partners and community organizations, began developing an ordinance based on these findings to help address the burdens frontline communities face. We now have the ordinance, marking the start of a more just and sustainable future tackling the cumulative impacts within our communities. The ordinance will... • Codify the definitions of Environmental Justice and Climate Justice. • Create an Advisory Board to guide future policies • Address zoning requirements to consider cumulative health impacts before new developments impact already overburdened communities. We need your support to pass the Hazel M. Johnson Ordinance! Join us in voicing your lived experience and urging City Council to approve this vital ordinance. Together, we can make a lasting difference for Chicago. Flyer to galvanize support for the Hazel M. Johnson Ordinance. Wednesday March 12, 2025 Rally outside city hall 9am. North LaSalle street entrance. Wear green and show your support in person to pack the room. If you want to provide in-person comment, enter city hall from West Washington street, fill out the form provided by the Sergeant-at-Arms to join the lottery selection process, then prepare no more than 3 minutes to comment. If you want to provide a virtual public comment, you have from 12:01am on March 10 until 8:00am on March 11 to call (312)744-6800 and leave a voice message with your name and phone number. If selected, you must be available at 10:00am on March 12 to speak. If you want to provide written comment, submit to public_comments@cityofchicago.org between 8-9am on March 12th. Comments cannot exceed 2 pages. For more info contact mmata@ChicagoEJN.org.
March 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM