Illinois' advocate for clean water and healthy rivers.
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Prairie Rivers Network retweeted
Thank you to everyone who spent their Saturday in Springfield urging our legislators to pass the POWER Act and hold data centers accountable!! Illinois can pass nation-leading legislation that protects our communities from data center harms. It’s time to #StandUpToBigTech!
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Prairie Rivers Network retweeted
May 30
Rallying with 600 fellow advocates from across Illinois at #POWERActLobbyDay!📣 We’re calling on lawmakers to urgently pass the POWER Act to stand UP to Big Tech and stand FOR our communities. #ClimateActionNow #POWERtothePeople
@ILCleanJobs @ilenviro @PrairieRivers @cubillinois
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PRN is in Springfield today for #POWERActLobbyDay!
Illinois must pass nation-leading legislation that protects our water, our power, and our communities from data center harms. We’re calling on lawmakers to pass the POWER Act!⚡️ #POWERtothePeople
@ilenviro @ILCleanJobs
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Prairie Rivers Network retweeted
May 30
Headed to Springfield this morning for #POWERActLobbyDay! 📣 I’m joining advocates from across IL to urge lawmakers to pass the POWER Act to hold data centers accountable and protect our water, power, and communities. @ilenviro @ILCleanJobs @PrairieRivers @cubillinois
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The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing dangerous rollbacks to federal coal ash protections, putting communities and groundwater at risk of toxic pollution.
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These changes would weaken oversight, delay cleanup requirements, and allow coal ash—a byproduct of burning coal that contains arsenic, boron, mercury, radium, and many more chemicals tied to complications like cancer, heart disease, and brain damage—to leach into groundwater.
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There’s still time to take action! Tell US EPA people must come before the profits of large corporations. Learn how in our recent blog post co-authored by Earthjustice! prairierivers.org/uncategori…
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Pesticide Drift in Public Spaces builds on the groundbreaking herbicide drift report, Hidden in Plain Sight, released in 2024. This new research zeros in on the presence and frequency of pesticide drift in outdoor public spaces—including schools, parks, and playgrounds across IL.
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296 detections of 18 different pesticides occurred between all 10 sites during the growing season—200 were estimated to be independent exposure events. The most frequently detected pesticide being 2-4D—which is considered a possible carcinogen by the @IARCWHO
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This research shows it is increasingly obvious that current practices for large-scale chemical application are not preventing drift exposures to public spaces that we hold near and dear. Read the press release and report here: prairierivers.org/front-page…
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PRN with @AmmonsRep's office about some priorities: Passing the POWER Act, protecting IL wetlands, and passing the Notice of State Restricted Pesticide Application Act (HB1596) cc: @ilenviro
#EnvironmentalLobbyDay #ProtectILWetlands #POWERtothePeople
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Checked in with @RepSchweizer & talked about supporting HB1596 and the POWER Act, passing legislation to protect our wetlands, & banning polystyrene foam foodware. Thanks, Rep. Schweizer!
cc: @ilenviro
#EnvironmentalLobbyDay #ProtectILWetlands #POWERtothePeople
#DitchFoam
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Fresh off the bus: PRN's Andrew Rehn and some U of I students at the Illinois State Capitol for #EnvironmentalLobbyDay
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Our advocates are in Springfield to urge lawmakers to, among other legislation, pass the Wetlands Protection Act!🌊 Illinois needs strong protections for our wetlands to defend the remaining 10%. #ProtectILWetlands #DefendtheTen cc: @ilenviro
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Over 80% of Illinois is in drought, with parts of 19 Central Illinois counties now in D3–Extreme Drought—which the @NOAA defines as “major crop/pasture losses; extreme fire danger; widespread water shortages or restrictions.”
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While legislation has been introduced to address threats posed by data centers, Illinois communities still remain vulnerable to other high-capacity water users.
Water is precious. We must protect it.
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