Great Rivers Environmental Law Center - Celebrating 20 Years

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.