ecology action

• Ecology Action Director Leaving

NORMAL - Michelle Covi, director of the Ecology Action Center for nine years, will leave her post at the end of the year. Covi started as a volunteer for the center shortly after it opened in 1996. Her husband, Tim Kelley, director of the environmental health program at Illinois State University, has accepted a job at East Carolina University.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• April 30, 2007

• Limerick Ecology Action, Inc., Petitioner in 85-3431, 86-3314, 87-3508, Thomas Martin, F8255, Petitioner in 85-3444, 87-3190, 87-3565, Robert L. Anthony, Petitioner in 85-3606, v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the United States of America, Respondents, Philadelphia Electric Company, Intervenor., 869 F.2d 719 (3rd Cir. 1989)

Angus R. Love (argued), Montgomery County Legal Aid, Norristown, Pa., for petitioner, Thomas Martin. Robert L. Anthony, Moylan, Pa., pro se. William ...

• Federal Circuits

• Items Go Fast at Ecology Action Center's Free-4-All

NORMAL - People like getting free things. Trista and Chris Gladish experienced this first hand Saturday when they tried to unload things in the parking lot to donate to the Ecology Action Center's semiannual Free-4-All at an Anderson Park pavilion.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• September 30, 2008

• San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Et Al., Petitioners, v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and United States of America, Respondents, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Intervenor. San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Et Al., Petitioners, v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and United States of America, Respondents, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Intervenor. San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace; Scenic Shoreline Preservation Conference, Inc.; Ecology Action Club; Sandra Silver; Gordon Silver; Elizabeth Apfelberg; and John J. Forster, Petitioners, v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and United States of America, Respondents, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Intervenor. George Deukmejian, Governor of the State of California, Petitioner, v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and United States of America, Respondents, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Intervenor. San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Et Al., Petitioners, v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and United States of America, Respondents, Pacific Gas and Electric ..., 751 F.2d 1287 (D.C. Cir. 1985)

Joel R. Reynolds, Los Angeles, Cal., with whom David S. Fleischaker, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for petitioners in Nos. 81-2034, 81-2035, 83-...

• Federal Circuits

• San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Et Al., Petitioners, v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and United States of America, Respondents, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Intervenor. (Three Cases). San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace; Scenic Shoreline Preservation Conference, Inc.; Ecology Action Club; Sandra Silver; Gordon Silver; Elizabeth Apfelberg; and John J. Forster, Petitioners, v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and United States of America, Respondents, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Intervenor. George Deukmejian, Governor of the State of California, Petitioner, v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and United States of America, Respondents, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Intervenor., 789 F.2d 26 (D.C. Cir. 1986)

Joel R. Reynolds for petitioners, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, et al. in Nos. 84-1410, 81-2034, 81-2035, 83-1073 and 84-1042. David S. Fleschak...

• Federal Circuits

• Graywater Gardens

My home and Weekly Deputy Editor Mark Anderson's were among five Monterey County demo sites where students installed L2L systems May 8. Two weeks later they'll install branch line systems, which recycle shower and bathroom sink water, at five more local homes. To officials' knowledge, these are the county's first graywater systems installed in accordance with the state's newly revised plumbing code. There's an energy-saving component to graywater," says Green Gardener Program Coordinator Sherry Bryan of Ecology Action, a Santa Cruz nonprofit. "It takes a lot of energy to pump and treat wastewater. Bryan notes one more big-picture worry: "If enough people divert their wastewater to a graywater irrigation field, there won't be enough strength- and by that I mean the liquid-to-solid radi...

• Monterey County Weekly
• June 08, 2010

• Ecology Action and Suzanne Weber, Petitioners, v. United States Atomic Energy Commission, Respondent, and Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Intervenor., 492 F.2d 998 (2nd Cir. 1974)

Richard I. Goldsmith, Syracuse, N.Y., for petitioners. Raymond M. Zimmet, Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. (Marcus A. Rowden, Gen. Counsel...

• Federal Circuits

• Area Calendar

TODAY Rain barrel workshop; 5:30 p.m., Ecology Action Center, Normal; register at 309-454-3169.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• October 04, 2011

• Ecology Action Center Sells Reusable Bags

Reusable grocery bagsCost: $4Where: Ecology Action Center and elsewhereWhy: To preserve resources and save landfill space ------------ NORMAL -- Offered the choice of paper or plastic, Michelle Covi doesn't hesitate.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• August 06, 2004

• Few Take Up Recycle Initiative

NORMAL - Organizers of an effort to have Illinois State University students divert useable items from refuse to reuse are looking ahead to next year and aren't deterred by poor initial participation. The Ecology Action Center served as coordinator, staffing a hotline for students to set up appointments for trucks to pick up non-perishable food, clothing and/or furniture during moving-out week at the end of the semester. Only eight students called, but EAC assistant director Kris Hall considered it "a good start.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• May 23, 2012