Save the Dunes New Advocacy Blog

Welcome to our new 2024 Advocacy Blog! Here we’ll share legislation or actions we are supporting, details on the Indiana State Session, behind the scenes on our lobby trips, updates on emerging situations, and so much more! Stay connected with us and check back often to stay up to date on many of the behind the scenes advocacy initiatives we are working on.

To kick things off, and to give you a sense of the types of regulations, rules and initiatives we are working on, we are sharing a list of all the topics we submitted comment letters on in 2023. Submitting comment letters is one way that we advocate for the things that are important to us. Follow along with this blog series to learn about the many other ways that we work everyday to speak up for the Indiana Dunes!

Comment Letter Topics in 2023:

1. Endangered Species Act regulations changes

2. EPA’s new proposed Ballast Water Rule

3. Support letter for application for the U.S. EPA Great Lakes Environmental Justice Grant Program (GLEJGP).

4. Internal Revenue Service’s proposed rule, “Increased Credit or Deduction Amounts for

Satisfying Certain Prevailing Wage and Registered Apprenticeship Requirements.”

5. Support letter for Legacy CCR Surface Impoundment Rule

https://www.epa.gov/coalash/proposed-changes-legacy-coal-combustion-residuals-surface-impoundments-and-ccr-management

6. Support of Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat Act

https://www.nwf.org/Latest-News/Press-Releases/2023/3-17-23-MONARCH-Act

7. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Phase 2 Implementing Regulations

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/07/31/2023-15405/national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations-revisions-phase-2

8. Natural Resource Damages Consent Decree regarding United States and the State of Indiana v. Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/20/2023-25570/notice-of-lodging-of-proposed-consent-decree-under-the-comprehensive-environmental-response

9. Support letter for NIRPC/Alliance for the Great Lakes grant

10. EPA’s proposal to designate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”)

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/13/2023-07535/addressing-pfas-in-the-environment

11. Support of Environmental Protection Agency’s Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/06/14/2023-12684/draft-national-strategy-to-prevent-plastic-pollution-extension-of-comment-period

12. Support letter for ELPC’s comments on IDEM’s draft Attainment Demonstration to encourage IDEM to impose additional control measures to expeditiously attain and maintain the 2015 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (“NAAQS”) for northern Lake and Porter Counties

13. Support of Recovering America’s Wildlife Act

https://www.nwf.org/Our-Work/Wildlife-Conservation/Policy/Recovering-Americas-Wildlife-Act

14. Support of Implementing the Supreme Court’s Maui Decision in the Clean Water Act Section 402 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Program

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/27/2023-26038/implementing-the-supreme-courts-maui-decision-in-the-clean-water-act-section-402-national-pollutant

15. Letter for Extension for NPDES Permit – Cleveland Cliffs Indiana Harbor

16. Cleveland Cliffs Indiana Harbor East Facility NPDES permit comment

17. Cleveland Cliffs Indiana Harbor Central Facility NPDES permit comment

18. Cleveland Cliffs Indiana Harbor West Facility NPDES permit comment

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