NEWSROOM
The Stop Mercury Pollution Newsroom features the lastest news releases about our efforts to reduce mercury pollution in the state of Illinois.
Press Releases
- Gov. Blagojevich announces multi-pollutant reduction plan with Ameren that will make Illinois a national clean air leader (August 8)
- Baby Buggy Brigade Rallies for Children's Health (May 8)
- Public Interest Leaders Call on Candidates (May 2)
- ELPC Supports Governor’s Environmental Programs in the State of the State (January 18)
- Doctors, Children’s Advocates, Public Health Organizations and Hospitals Announce Support for Governor’s Mercury Pollution Reduction Plan (January 11)
- ELPC Executive Director Howard Learner's Statement (January 5)
- Dr. Binns Statement (January 5)
- Statement from Alliance for the Great Lakes (January 5)
Editorials
- Peoria Journal Star (November 20)
- Daily Southtown (November 13)
- The Star (November 9)
- Daily Southtown (October 11)
- Chicago Sun Times (October 11)
- Joliet Herald News (September 21)
- Rockford Register Star (August 17)
- St. Louis Post Dispatch (August 7)
- Champaign News-Gazette (August 6)
- Chicago Tribune, August 6th (August 6)
- Daily Herald (August 4)
- Journal Register (April 9)
- Rockford Register Star (February 22)
- Kankakee Journal (February 21)
- St. Louis Post Dispatch (February 13)
- Peoria Journal Star (January 16)
- Champaign News-Gazette (January 10)
- Detroit Free Press Editorial on the Proposed Illinois Mercury Rule (January 9)
Letters to the Editor
- Daily Southtown (August 9)
- Chicago Sun Times (August 6)
- Chicago Tribune (May 21)
- Southwest News (April 2)
- "No Time to Waste on Mercury Pollution," Chicago Sun Times (February 15)
- Chicago Sun Times Letter from PIRG (February 2)
- St. Louis Post Dispatch (January 27)
- Crain’s (January 23)
- Daily Herald (January 6)
- ELPC Executive Director Howard Learner’s Letter to the Editor in the Chicago Tribune (December 20)
Articles
- Herald News (August 22)
- St. Louis Post Dispatch (August 22)
- The Belleville News Democrat (August 22)
- The Chicago Tribune's Special Series on Mercury
On January 18th, the day of the Governor's State of the State Address, the coalition placed full page advertisement in the Springfield State Journal Register in support of the mercury reduction plan.