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Swimmers at Ogden Dunes enjoy a dip in Lake Michigan on New Year's Day. Doug Ross, The Times

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...
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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...
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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...
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Maintaining Public Access to Lake Michigan Beaches

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

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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...

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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...
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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...
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Stopping More Industrial Pollution in Gary 

Gary Advocates for Responsible Development (GARD) v. IDEM, Fulcrum BioEnergy, LLC...
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Child fishes at Beaver Lake

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...
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The United States Supreme Court Denies Cert. in Pavlock v. Holcomb

On October 31st, the US Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari filed by private landowners in the Pavlock case, declining to consider the legal...
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A Win for Wetlands!

In 2020, Conservation Law Center partnered with Hoosier Environmental Council and the Indiana Audubon Society in a suit against Natural Prairie and the US Army...
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Federal court tosses finding that Clean Water Act does not apply to Newton County CAFO

Finding the Army Corps of Engineers did not follow its own guidance and procedures, the Northern Indiana District Court has thrown out the Corps’ decision...
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The Public Trust Battle Continues

In our landmark case, Gunderson v. Indiana, CLC represented the environmental groups Save the Dunes and Alliance for the Great Lakes through the Trial Court,...
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Support for the threatened Great Green Macaw

CLC works to improve condition in Costa Rica, Columbia, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama for the Great Green Macaw...
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Indiana easement signing a historic event

Harrison County agreement marks the first use of the federal agricultural land easement component in Indiana....
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Success, Hazardous Waste Burn has been Denied

Essroc Cement Corp. v. Clark County Bd. of Zoning Appeals and Sierra Club...
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Bison at Kankakee Sands

A Win for Wetlands and Government Accountability

Hoosier Environmental Council, Indiana Audubon, et al. v. Natural Prairie Indiana Farmland Holdings, LLC and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
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Supreme Court stands with conservation groups in Lake Michigan beach access case

The public’s right to the Lake Michigan shoreline stands after the U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday it was denying a petition to hear an appeal...

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U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Hear Lake Michigan Public Trust Case

Is your right to access Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline a national concern? On October 5th, the US Supreme Court was asked to decide if it...
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Landmark Public Trust Case a Major Win for Hoosiers

The Conservation Law Center, with attorney Jeff Hyman leading the litigation, represented environmental groups Alliance for the Great Lakes and <a target="_blank"...
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