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Controversy Swirls on Green River
by Brian Wellner
Quad City Times, April 13, 2012
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Quad City Journal Blog
with updates on the Green River Dumping
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Watch our video investigating Concrete Dumping on the Green River, one
mile from the Rock River:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTrhGGLXthA
Watch this Underwater Video of concrete slabs in the
Green River:
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Read about how QC Waterkeeper Art Norris' rescue of an injured Pelican on
the shores of the Rock River inspired a Children's Book by Arlene Rundle
CLICK HERE
Read the latest
grassroots environmental news from EcoWatch
Old Man River - Chapter 4
by Brett Rogers. It is a 110 day expedition rowing the entire length of the
Mississippi River to support water conservation and the mission of the Lower
Mississippi RiverKeeper (www.lmrk.org )
Features the QCWaterkeeper Art Norris
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Waterkeeper Celebrates Clean Water Act 40th Anniversary
See the Video
Press Release: December 13, 2010:
Quad Cities Waterkeeper Settles Water
Enforcement Case against Milan Polluter.
Waterkeeper letters prompt Illinois EPA to take enforcement action
against 3 others.
More Agribusiness Pollution Issues
Cargill and the Illinois River: New Environment Illinois Report
Documents Agribusiness's Industrial-Scale Water Pollution
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September 30, 2010 Waterkeeper Update:
EPA finds Illinois in
serious noncompliance with Federal Clean Water Act requirements for
factory-farms. READ MORE....
Triumph Used Its Own Immigrant Workforce and
Out-of-State Contractors to Build its St. Joseph, Missouri Plant. No
Local or Union Workers were employed by the project.
READ MORE....
Triumph Foods...How it would affect the Quad
Cities - READ HERE
The Triumph hog slaughterhouse story has spread to the West coast in
the LA Times:
Hog-slaughterhouse plan stirs controversy over how meat is
made
The uproar in an Illinois town reflects an intensifying national
debate over how we raise, slaughter and process the livestock we
consume.
August 31, 2010 | By Monica Eng
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SWINE FACTS: COMPARING SWINE WASTE
TO HUMAN WASTE
The swine industry often states that
hogs produce 2 1/2 times the waste of a human. But what they fail to
reveal is exactly what is being compared as "waste".
READ MORE
More on Triumph Foods in the
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: August 16, 2010:
Proposed slaughterhouse stirs controversy in
Quad Cities Activists say it will bring environmental
damage
supporters say the area needs jobs
By
Monica Eng, Tribune reporter
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-slaughterhouse-controversy-20100816,0,2385969.story
CALL TO ACTION:
All Illinois citizens concerned about factory-farming are
encouraged to take action to help stop the Triumph Foods pork
processing plant from being built.
Learn more
Visit our
Facebook
page for the latest updates and news on the Gulf of
Mexico Oil Spill Clean up or Visit:
http://saveourgulf.org/
Save Our Gulf has been established by Waterkeeper
Alliance to coordinate the efforts of Gulf Waterkeepers who are
fighting to protect the Gulf Coast, its communities and
environment, from the devastating BP oil disaster.
Quad Cities
WATERKEEPER® would like to
invite you to our membership meetings. Membership not required.
It is an excellent opportunity to get to know others in
the area who share your passion for protecting our waterways, as
well as address a couple of urgent water protection items,
RSVP
quadcitieswaterkeeper@gmail.com
or contact Art Norris
309-721-1800
Environment Illinois -
Restore Clean Water Act Protections
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Rock River Fish Kill
Update
STOP Asian carp from invading
Lake Michigan.
Check out this page at the Environment Illinois Web site
and to see what you can do
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