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Kim Ferraro

Kim E. Ferraro is the Managing Attorney at the Conservation Law Center, where she leads the organization’s environmental litigation programs. She is a seasoned public...

Categories: Arcosa Mines, Associational Standing, Eagle Valley, Environmental Legal Aid Program, Fulcrum, Natural Prairie, Ogden Dunes, State Line Peninsula, Stop the Rocket
Issues: Biodiversity, Community-Centered Conservation, Land, Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Legal Education, Nonprofit Support, Partnerships, Policy

Christian Freitag

Christian Freitag is the Glenn and Donna Scolnik Clinical Chair of Conservation Law Indiana University Maurer School of Law and President and Executive Director of...

Categories: Busseron, Clean Water Indiana, Green Macaw, ILPA, RCPP, Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape
Issues: Biodiversity, Land, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Legal Education, Nonprofit Support, Partnerships, Policy

Protecting the White River from Coal Ash Pollution

Hoosier Environmental Council v. IDEM, AES/Eagle Valley Generating Station...

Categories: Clean Water Indiana, Eagle Valley
Issues: Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

400 Acres Preserved in Indiana

In 2023 and early 2024, Conservation Law Center assisted Central Indiana Land Trust in completing two conservation easements protecting over 400 acres of land in...

Categories: CILTI
Issues: Land
Services: Nonprofit Support

Free Conservation Tool Provided to All Indiana Land Trusts

CLC created three conservation easement templates to protect natural habitat, including one for working forests and one for agricultural land....

Categories: ILPA
Issues: Land
Services: Nonprofit Support

The Conservation Fund

The Conservation Fund is in the business of conservation, creating innovative solutions that drive nature-based action for climate protection, sustainable economies and vibrant communities. A...

Categories: Associational Standing, Busseron, RCPP, Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape
Issues: Land
Services: Partnerships

Lake Superior Spaceport Plans Are Defeated

We are pleased to announce that the Powell Township Board has enacted an official “RESOLUTION” rejecting the plan by the Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association (MAMA)...

Categories: News, Stop the Rocket
Issues: Biodiversity, Land, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

Supporting Prescribed Fire for Healthy Forests

CLC is drafting proposed legislation to promote prescribed fire....

Categories: Indiana Prescribed Fire
Issues: Land
Services: Nonprofit Support, Partnerships

Gary citizen group fights back against Fulcrum harassment

Gary, IN - - In an ongoing challenge to Fulcrum Centerpoint’s air pollution permit, Gary Advocates for Responsible Development (GARD) is asking the administrative law...

Public interest vs. private homes: Climate change and erosion fuel disputes along Lake Michigan’s shoreline

Steve Coombs’ lakefront home used to quake when waves crashed along Ogden Dunes’ receding shoreline. “At one point, my wife said, ‘Should we just move...

Categories: News, Ogden Dunes
Issues: Biodiversity, Land, Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

Victory! Plans to Industrialize Pristine Lake Superior Shoreline for a Rocket Launch Site Thwarted

Citizens for a Safe and Clean Lake Superior v. Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association...

Categories: Stop the Rocket
Issues: Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

Possible Ogden Dunes revetment sparks debate

ODGEN DUNES — The possible construction of an armor stone revetment in Ogden Dunes has been challenged by the non-profit group Save the Dunes. The...

Categories: News, Ogden Dunes
Issues: Biodiversity, Land, Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

Environmentalists oppose extension of Ogden Dunes revetment along Lake Michigan shoreline

A little more than three years ago, Lake Michigan was at its highest level in more than 30 years, and waves dashed up against the...

Categories: News, Ogden Dunes
Issues: Biodiversity, Land, Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

Save the Dunes Challenges State Approval of an Armor Stone Revetment Along the Lake Michigan Shoreline for Violating the Public Trust

(Ogden Dunes, IN)- Save the Dunes filed an administrative appeal on Monday with the Indiana Natural Resources Commission. The appeal challenges the Indiana Department of...

Categories: News, Ogden Dunes
Issues: Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

Maintaining Public Access to Lake Michigan Beaches

Save the Dunes v. Ind. Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR), Town of Ogden Dunes...

Categories: Case, Ogden Dunes
Issues: Public Trust
Services: Legal Advocacy

Critics: Regulatory ‘shell game’ allows AES to dump harmful coal ash pollution in White River

The state is allowing AES Indiana to dump more than 1 million gallons of water contaminated with harmful coal ash pollutants...

Categories: Eagle Valley, News
Issues: Community-Centered Conservation, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

State is letting AES Indiana discharge toxic water into White River, group says

An Indiana environmental group says the state is allowingutility AES Indiana to release more than 1 million gallons ofcontaminated water a day into the...

Categories: Eagle Valley, News
Issues: Community-Centered Conservation, Land, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

Gas plant could be sending coal ash contaminated water into the White River

The Eagle Valley natural gas plant in Martinsville is using water that could be contaminated with toxic coal ash to cool the plant and then...

Categories: Eagle Valley, News
Issues: Community-Centered Conservation, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

Indiana Environmental Group Challenges State Permit Allowing Releases of Coal Ash Waste into the White River

(MARTINSVILLE, IN)- The Hoosier Environmental Council (“HEC”) filed an administrative appeal on Monday with the Indiana Office of Environmental Adjudication (“OEA”). The appeal challenges a...

Categories: Eagle Valley, News
Issues: Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

Stopping More Industrial Pollution in Gary

Gary Advocates for Responsible Development (GARD) v. IDEM, Fulcrum BioEnergy, LLC...

Categories: Environmental Legal Aid Program, Fulcrum
Issues: Community-Centered Conservation
Services: Legal Advocacy

District court rules against CAFO, Corps

A ditch system dug nearly 100 years ago to drain Beaver Lake, formerly the largest natural lake in Indiana, is at the center of a...

Categories: Natural Prairie, News
Issues: Biodiversity, Land, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy

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