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OUR MISSION:
We are a legal services non-profit organization that works alongside communities of color and other historically underserved communities who are regularly impacted by environmental and structural poverty issues with an emphasis on legal assistance, advocacy, and community empowerment.
Feature Articles
Wasted Waters: How Southern Illinois is Coping with Decades of Sewage Flooding… and Why it Still Isn’t Solved.
Illinois Answers Project | By Janelle O’Dea
Published June 17, 2025
E. coli found in drinking water of metro-east city that floods with sewage
Metro-East News | By Lexi Cortes, Janelle O’Dea and Lacretia Wimbley
March 9, 2026 5:00 AM
Cahokia Heights loses federal funding for sewer system upgrades
By: Chad Mira
Posted: Apr 16, 2025 / 06:03 PM CDT
