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| Environment Illinois applauds Senators Levin (Mich.) and Voinovich (Ohio) and the U.S. Senate for passing legislation to clean up toxic contamination in the Great Lakes. | |
| Environment Illinois applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for voting (390 to 25) to pass the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin Water Resources Compact (S.J.Res. 45), which ensures more sustainable use of Great Lakes water. The compact addresses challenges such as growing demand for water and increased pressure to divert water from the lakes. | |
| Environment Illinois applauds Illinois Senators Richard Durbin and Barack Obama, along with Senator Carl Levin (Mich.), George Voinovich (Ohio), and much of the rest of the Great Lakes congressional delegation, for introducing bipartisan legislation yesterday to protect the Great Lakes. | |
| With families across the region bound for Great Lakes beaches this fourth of July weekend, Chicago Congressman Dan Lipinski joined environmental groups at the Shedd Aquarium on Lake Michigan to urge Congress to protect the Great Lakes by passing the Clean Water Restoration Act. | |
| Today’s findings by the Associated Press confirm what Environment lllinois has suspected for some time: that prescription drugs and other medicines are now in the tap water for millions of Americans. | |
| CHICAGO—Nearly half of major industrial and municipal facilities across Illinois discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow in 2005, according to Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act Compliance, a new report released today by Environment Illinois. | |
| New laws will protect Illinois children's health by eliminating the largest remaining categories of mercury-containing products. | |
| BP’s announcement today that it will avoid any increased pollution into Lake Michigan affirms that BP has heard the voices of millions of Great Lakes Region residents that Lake Michigan is our gem and drinking water, not our dumping ground. Now BP must seek an amended discharge permit that codifies its pledge. | |
| CHICAGO, Illinois—Environment Illinois today presented BP and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials with more than 70,000 thousand signatures from Great Lakes region residents demanding a halt to BP's unprecedented expansion of pollution into Lake Michigan. | |
| Environment Illinois delivers petitions calling on BP, Congress, and U.S. EPA to halt BP’s planned expansion of polluting in Lake Michigan. State house and congressional resolutions echo calls for rescission of BP pollution permit | |
| SPRINGFIELD, IL—The Illinois House of Representatives yesterday passed Senate Bill 1241, which prohibits the sale or installation of mercury-containing thermostats—and concludes a successful effort to pass two bills eliminating the largest classes of mercury-containing products still legal for sale in Illinois. | |
| In a major victory for children's health and the environment, the Illinois Senate yesterday unanimously passed House Bill 943 which, pending the Governor's signature, will prohibit the sale of mercury-containing measuring devices, the largest class of mercury-containing products still legal for sale in Illinois. | |
| The Washington Senate's overwhelming 41 to 7 vote boosts the efforts of public health and fire safety advocates advancing similar bills in Illinois and other states. | |
| In a victory for industrial and residential Great Lakes water users everywhere, the Illinois State House of Representatives unanimously passed House Bill 375, sponsored by State Representative Harry Osterman (D-Chicago), to implement the Great Lakes Water Resources Compact. | |
| In a victory for industrial and residential Great Lakes water users everywhere, the House Executive Committee unanimously passed House Bill 375, sponsored by State Representative Harry Osterman (D-Chicago), to implement the Great Lakes Water Resources Compact. | |
| Two national experts on the toxicology of and alternatives to the widely-used chemical flame retardant deca-bromodiphenylether (decaBDE) today urged Illinois to prohibit its most common uses. | |
| The House Environmental Health Committee today unanimously passed House Bill 943, which would prohibit the sale of mercury-containing measuring devices, the largest class of mercury-containing products in Illinois. | |
| In a major victory for public health and the environment, Illinois completed the final step in adopting a rule to reduce coal-fired power plant mercury pollution by up to 90 percent by 2009. | |
| In a major victory for children's health and the environment, the Illinois Pollution Control Board voted today to reduce coal-fired power plants' toxic mercury pollution by up to 90 percent. | |
| Culminating a two-year campaign to build public awareness of the danger and extent of power plant mercury pollution in Illinois, and with two upcoming votes on the proposed rule to reduce this pollution, Environment Illinois today launched an advertising campaign highlighting mercury's toxic impact on children's and fetus's neurological development. | |
| Having received more than 7000 letters, postcards and e-mails in support of the Illinois Mercury Rule, the Illinois Pollution Control Board today will close public comment on this pending proposal to reduce coal-fired power plants' toxic mercury pollution. | |
| An investigation of tuna served in Chicago sushi restaurants adds to a recent stream of bad news about high levels of mercury in store bought tuna, locally-caught sport fish and other seafood available to Illinoisans. | |
| A ban on the toxic flame retardant deca-bromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) in all new TVs, computers and other electrical and electronic equipment went into effect in the European Union on July 1, 2006. | |
| A ban on the toxic flame retardant deca-bromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) in all new TVs, computers and other electrical and electronic equipment went into effect in the European Union on July 1, 2006. | |
| A new analysis of a proposed Bush Administration rule reveals that residents of Illinois would lose valuable information about the amounts and type of harmful chemicals discharged by industrial facilities in their neighborhoods if the rule is finalized. | |
| A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal to weaken power plant mercury protections drew sharp criticism at a public hearing in Chicago today. | |
| Oil refineries needlessly put 3.6 million people in Illinois at risk of injury or death in the event of an accident or deliberate attack, according to a new report released today by the Illinois PIRG Education Fund. | |
| Led by Illinois U.S. Reps. Kirk and Schakowsky, 138 Members of Congress (including Reps. Kirk and Schakowsky) sent a letter to President Bush today expressing their concern over his proposal to weaken crucial aspects of the Clean Air Act that regulate mercury pollution for old, coal-burning electric power plants, as the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Air Quality subcommittee prepared to hear testimony on Tuesday from the EPA on the Bush administration’s air pollution legislation. | |
| Out of the 39 Superfund sites in Illinois, 17 could be affected by a slowdown in the pace of cleanups and less EPA oversight of clean up activities conducted by polluters. | |
| A coalition of citizen groups—the Safe Hometowns Initiative—today said that thousands remain at risk from potential terrorist attacks on chemical facilities in Illinois and millions of Americans remain at risk nationwide. | |
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