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Great Rivers Environmental Law Center - Celebrating 20 Years

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Great Rivers Environmental Law Center defends and protects Nature: places, creatures, plants and US.

     

Celebrating two decades of this worthy work, GREC President Bruce Morrison recalls triumphs, challenges and how collaboration with community is changing they way his team practices enviro law. Preview: the recent WIN for children's health thanks to Madeline Semanisin's work to secure passage of Get Lead Out of Drinking Water Act, through the MO Legislature, on July 1, 2022.

                            

October 23, 2022  - join the celebration at World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park, featuring presentation of the Lewis C. Green Award for outstanding environmental work to Dan and Connie Burkhardt, founders of Magnificent Missouri. Click here for details.

THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to Jon Valley, potentate of production at KDHX.

Related Earthworms Conversations: Illinois Clean Energy Policy: Andy Heaslet on making of a legislative model (January 2022)

The Rule of Five: Supreme Court Climate History (July 2020) When the US Supreme Court defined CO2 as an air pollutant, climate regulations took a huge and critical turn. Lawyer, author and scholar Richard Lazarus told this landmark story, in another era for national rule-making.

 

State's Attorney Haine Announces Murder Charges Against Man In Fire That Claimed Life Of Troy Woman

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EDWARDSVILLE — Madison County State’s Attorney Thomas A. Haine announced Tuesday that his office filed first-degree murder charges in connection with a residential fire that resulted in the death of a Troy woman. Prosecutors charged Michael E. Sloan Jr. (D.O.B. 6/6/1982) with three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, one count of aggravated arson, and one count of aggravated unlawful restraint. The aftermath of the Troy fire is shown in the photo above and below and Troy firefighters battling the serious blaze. Haine's announcement says the murder charges allege that on Sept. 22, 2022, Sloan burned the home of Susanne Tomlinson in the 500 block of Wood Thrush in Troy while Tomlinson was inside, causing the death of Tomlinson. Haine said the charge of attempted murder alleges that Sloan attempted to kill Tomlinson’s daughter, Courtney Tomlinson, by ordering Courtney Tomlinson to bind herself with zip-ties on her wrists, covering

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