This week, Save the Dunes and the South Shore Line partnered with NIPSCO, National Park Service, National Parks Conservation Association, and Shirley Heinze Land Trust to plant 400 plugs of rare or ecologically significant plant species within Cowles Bog. This… Read More
Tell the Department of Justice Additional Measures are Needed to Protect Lake Michigan In April 2017, U.S. Steel’s Midwest Plant Facility in Portage, IN reported a discharge of process wastewater containing hexavalent chromium into the Burns Waterway, 500 yards from… Read More
Coalition: Budget a Victory for People, Great Lakes As a proud member of the Healing Our Waters Coalition, Save the Dunes is proud to share the following on the coalition’s behalf. ANN ARBOR, MICH. (March 23, 2018)—The U.S. House and… Read More
Save the Dunes and Alliance for the Great Lakes, along with the State of Indiana and Long Beach Community Alliance, have prevailed in landmark litigation that attempted, but failed, to abolish the public trust doctrine on Indiana’s portion of the Lake Michigan… Read More
In June, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) publicly released its draft review of the City of Waukesha’s request to divert water from Lake Michigan—a move that could have ramifications for how the eight-state region of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New… Read More
