The organization states that its attorneys and policy advocates work on multi-disciplinary teams alongside scientists, finance specialists, media experts and others.
February 29: After years of legal action by ELPC accompanied by advocacy from environmental organizations, Illinois' Fisk and Crawford coal plants announced planned closures for 2012 and 2014.
2011 Due to advocacy by local organizations including the ELPC, the city of Chicago disinfects 1.2 billion gallons of wastewater returned to the river daily.
Successfully advocated for Illinois' improved recycling law, which diverts electronic waste with toxic components to landfills where the chemicals can leach and contaminate groundwater used for community drinking water supplies.
Due to an ELPC's legal challenge, the State of Iowa was required to approve new "anti-degradation" rules, regulations that force communities to make the most "environmentally beneficial" decisions regardless of cost when improving infrastructure.
2005 Protected almost 25,000 acres of Wisconsin's Northwoods from excessive logging through successful emergency legal appeals in Federal District Court to three timber sales approved by the U.S. Forest Service.
Legally intervened in a federal lawsuit to force Dynegy Midwest Generation to put modern pollution controls on their coal plants in Southern Illinois.
Promoted "smart growth" measures that prevented two proposed new outlying bypass roads around Petoskey and Traverse City, Michigan from being constructed.
Succeeded in bringing and winning United States Supreme Court to halt a steel company's punitive damages lawsuit against a grassroots citizens’ group that had brought a reasonable environmental enforcement action.
Won an injunction to halt logging on the ridge tops that could have caused soil erosion and destruction of the Bell Smith Springs Natural Landmark.
Leveraged our intervention in the Cinergy merger between two Indiana and Ohio utilities to negotiate a major new five-year energy efficiency initiative.