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Long-time HEC Attorney Kim Ferraro Joining Legal Team at Conservation Law Center

Today, the Hoosier Environmental Council (HEC) wishes a warm farewell and many thanks to its long-time Senior Attorney, Kim Ferraro, who is leaving HEC after...

Categories: Press Release
Issues: Biodiversity, Community-Centered Conservation, Land, Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Legal Education, Nonprofit Support, Partnerships, Policy

Simon Family Foundation Continues its Generous Support of CLC’s Land Conservation Work in Indiana

Conservation Law Center appreciates our long-standing relationship with the Herbert Simon Family Foundation and are proud to acknowledge their continued support of our efforts. This...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity, Land, Water
Services: Nonprofit Support, Partnerships, Policy

Conservation Law Center names Megan Freveletti as first Nancy C. Ralston Conservation Fellow

The Conservation Law Center is excited to announce the creation of a new position—the Nancy C. Ralston Conservation Law Fellowship. Through a nation-wide search, Megan...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Policy

Freitag Testifies at the Statehouse to Wastewater Task Force

Last year, Governor Holcomb created the state’s first Wastewater Task Force to address issues of Indiana’s water management and water quality. Co-chairs Senator Eric Koch...

Categories: Blog, Clean Water Indiana
Issues: Water
Services: Policy

The Not So Dark Side Of Bats

There's nothing spooky about bats. 🦇 Although they are often accused of being pests, these winged friends actually play important roles in pest control. Here...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity
Services: Policy

Water Quality Awareness Month!

Clean water is vital to our health, our collective agricultural needs, and the needs of our environment. August is #NationalWaterQualityMonth (https://nationalwaterqualitymonth.org/) and here at CLC...

Categories: Blog, Clean Water Indiana
Issues: Water
Services: Policy

Water and Quality of Life in Indiana

In 2016, with support from Nina Mason Pulliam Trust, CLC completed a 45-page report, Water and Quality of Life in Indiana, giving 14 recommendations on...

Categories: Clean Water Indiana, Publication
Issues: Biodiversity, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Policy

The Water Crisis in Indiana

Having safe and reliable access to clean drinking water is something easily taken for granted by most Americans, but in reality, 2018 data showed that...

Categories: Blog, Clean Water Indiana
Issues: Water
Services: Policy

The Teddy Bears of the Bee World Are Endangered

Due to loss of habitat, disease, pesticides, and climate change, the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, Bombus affinis, has been classified as endangered under the Endangered...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity
Services: Legal Advocacy, Policy

The Mallard Migration

And they’re off, south for the winter! As birds head toward the winter home, they follow specific paths called “Flyways.” Along the way, they have...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity, Land, Water
Services: Policy

$60,000 Grant from Simon Family Foundation to Advance Water Quality and Land Conservation in Indiana

Thank you to the Herbert Simon Family Foundation who has awarded the Conservation Law Center a $60,000 grant to further our work in water quality...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity, Land, Water
Services: Nonprofit Support, Policy

Conservation Law Center Receives $20,000 Grant from Duke Energy Foundation for Water Monitoring on Lake Monroe

The Duke Energy Foundation recently awarded Conservation Law Center a grant for $20,000 to help improve water monitoring and management of Lake Monroe....

Categories: Blog
Issues: Water
Services: Policy

Freitag Represents the Center at Public Affairs Governance Workshop in China

This past June, I accepted an invitation from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and Ocean University of China to...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Land, Water
Services: Nonprofit Support, Policy

Water Quality Day

On August 25, Hoosiers will gather in Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Monroe County to celebrate Water Quality Day. As part of National Water Quality Month, Water...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Water
Services: Policy

A Letter to the Editor: We all need clean, abundant water

August is Water Quality Month (#WQM17). What’s on tap? A reminder to celebrate Indiana’s bounty of rivers, lakes and streams. They support a billion-dollar recreational...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Water
Services: Policy

Advocacy group seeks protection of Indiana’s water resources

Carol Kugler, a reporter for The Herald-Times in Bloomington, IN, attended CLC's recent presentation at Green Drinks Bloomington.

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Categories: News
Issues: Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Policy

CLC Proposes Updates to Indiana Water Management Policies

In response to the recommendation of the Indiana Sustainable Natural Resources Task Force, and in collaboration with members of the Indiana General Assembly, the CLC...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Water
Services: Policy

Ballast Water Treatment Regulations

CLC attorneys and Clinic interns advised long-standing client, Great Lakes United, and four other conservation groups in preparing comments on the U.S. Coast Guard's ballast...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity, Water
Services: Legal Education, Policy

The Legal Challenge of Protecting Animal Migrations as Phenomena of Abundance

The CLC attorneys and Clinic interns will be participating in the second semester of a year-long series of interdisciplinary seminars on protecting animal migrations, an...

Categories: Publication
Issues: Biodiversity
Services: Legal Education, Policy

Antidegradation Rulemaking

CLC attorneys and Clinic interns continue the CLC's multiyear involvement in Indiana's antidegradation rulemaking on behalf of client Alliance for the Great Lakes....

Categories: Blog
Issues: Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Policy

Prioritization for Federal Conservation Funds

We have been asked to advise CEAP (Conservation Effects Assessment Project) -- a multi-agency effort to quantify the environmental benefits of USDA-funded conservation programs --...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Water
Services: Policy

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