Leadership

I call on you to stand for the communities that are demanding a Moratorium on Fracking!

Fracking Bill Threatens our State and Should be Postponed An Open Letter to House Leader Michael Madigan Download a copy of this letter as PDF Dear Representative Madigan, I was encouraged in May to read your statements on the dangers of introducing the fracking industry to Illinois.  In the Chicago Sun-Times report on May 13, […]

Kim Wasserman One of Six Grassroots Heroes to Win $150,000 Goldman Environmental Prize

2013 recipients come from Colombia, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, South Africa and USA The Prize recognizes achievements in marshland restoration, solid waste management; fighting fracking, marble mining, and coal plant emissions SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2013 — The Goldman Environmental Foundation today announced the six recipients of the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize, a group of fearless […]

LVEJO’s successful grassroots organizing against the Fisk and Crawford coal plants resulted in their closure 2012.