Environment Illinois 2025 Program Agenda
With our supporters, Environment Illinois is celebrating nature and sharing a vision of an Illinois with clean water and air, more clean energy, healthy wildlife and more habitat that wildlife need to thrive.
Clean water
If we want a greener, healthier world we need to protect our rivers, lakes and streams.
Clean water is vital to ecosystems, to our health, and our quality of life. But too many of our rivers, lakes and streams are vulnerable to pollution. This pollution, along with outdated infrastructure – like lead pipes in our schools – puts our health at risk. We need to work together to protect our waters.
The Latest on Clean water
STATEMENT: EPA to limit discharges of PFAS
How cities are getting the lead out of school drinking water
Updates
Illinois Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act advances out of state House
PFAS in sewage sludge puts farms and food at risk
Worried about flooding? Wetlands are part of nature’s solution.
Featured Resources
Wetland wildlife coloring pages
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Factory Farms
Accidents Waiting to Happen
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Hazardous Materials by Rail
The Latest
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RELEASE: New report details environmental, consumer costs of AI, crypto and data centers
Chicago third largest data center market in U.S.; electricity demand growth exacerbating electric bill increases for northern Illinois residents
Environment America’s 2024 highlights
Five highlights of how our advocacy and action in 2024 put our country and our world on a greener, healthier, more sustainable path.
Water filter coupons in Cook County, Illinois, help reduce lead and plastic pollution
A new program helps some households access clean drinking water with filters certified to remove lead, without exacerbating the plastic pollution crisis and its toxic impacts.
Getting the lead out, 10 years after Flint
The Biden administration has taken the most significant step toward protecting our drinking water from lead since the start of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis a decade ago.
Protecting Illinois wetlands
Wetlands play a vital role in a healthy environment, but due to sprawl and other human activity only around 10% of Illinois’ historic wetlands remain. We’re supporting a state wetland protection program to safeguard what we have left.