Long Live the Great Lakes Republic: A Conversation with Dr. Rachel Havrelock

Stories from the Floodplain

Prairie Rivers Network sits down to talk with Dr. Rachel Havrelock, founder of the Freshwater Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago. We discuss why the US EPA is failing in its duty to enforce environmental protections and how new, watershed-based political institutions could fill the vacuum. We also touch upon how the COVID-19 crisis echoes and amplifies the legacy of industrial pollution in America.

Links:

Prairie Rivers Network (www.prairierivers.org)

Freshwater Stories (www.freshwaterstories.com)

Freshwater Lab (www.freshwaterlab.org)

International Joint Commission (https://ijc.org/en)

Blacks in Green (www.blacksingreen.org/)

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (www.lvejo.org)

Healing Our Waters (https://healthylakes.org/)

Freshwater Future (https://freshwaterfuture.org/)

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