Growing Chicago’s Green Economy

How can Chicago become a national green business center? That was the focus of “Growing Chicago’s Green Business and Clean Tech Economy” a conference hosted by the Environmental Law & Policy Center, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center on September 4th.  ELPC believes that Chicago is positioned perfectly to lead and become the center of this growing sector with new businesses, new jobs, international recognition, economic vibrancy and environmental progress. Click here to learn more and view video highlights of the conference.

• Ohio Workshop Highlights New Farm Bill Energy Assistance Programs
• What it Takes for Chicago to Lead in the Growing Green Economy
• ELPC Flies Over, Tours Northwoods
• Illinois Appellate Court Affirms that IEPA Cannot Allow Harmful Pollution
• Wind Power Development in South Dakota

Protecting the Midwest’s Environment and Natural Heritage

The Environmental Law & Policy Center is the Midwest’s leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. We develop and lead successful strategic environmental advocacy campaigns to improve environmental quality and protect our natural heritage. We are public interest environmental entrepreneurs who engage in creative business deal making with diverse interests to put into practice our belief that environmental progress and economic development can be achieved together.

Learn more about us, and how you can get involved.

Join our winning team of public interest attorneys, policy advocates, MBAs, communications specialists and organizers.

Court Decision Prevents Excessive Wisconsin Logging

Federal Judge Lynn Adelman issued a decision in ELPC’s favor, denying the U.S. Forest Service’s request to end an injunction on two timber sales in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. The decisions enjoining these two timber sales, covering more than 16,500 acres, were issued in 2005, citing the failure of the Forest Service to consider the cumulative impacts of five concurrent timber sales across the forest on threatened and endangered species. Sign the petition: urge lawmakers and policy makers to slow the pace of logging of the CNNF.