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New! View pictures from the Anniversary Party Online! Celebrate 10 Years of Environmental Justice! In the ten years since Midwest Environmental Advocates opened its doors, we’ve grown and changed. We started as a one woman shop in a windowless office. Now we have a full staff in Madison and Milwaukee and a clinical program where we train the next generation of environmental lawyers. Throughout our history, we’ve been providing the kind of lawyers and expertise Wisconsin communities need to effectively protect the air we breathe and the water we use. Midwest Environmental Advocates would like to thank everyone who made our tenth anniversary celebration on Friday, October 9th such a success. Both our environmental law seminar and our party and awards reception were well attended and highlighted the fantastic successes of the past ten years as well as challenges yet to come. During the 10th Anniversary Party we were glad to celebrate our progress and the many people and groups who have contributed to it through the presentation of “Lightning Rod Awards” at the October 9th anniversary party. The awards are called “lightning rods” because of the energizing contributions that that awardees have made to MEA’s work for environmental protection and justice. MEA would like to congratulate the following awards recipients. Thank you for your many years of dedication, and we look forward to continuing to partner with you during the years to come. Navigator Award: Tom Dawson in recognition of his many years of support, assistance and guidance to Midwest Environmental Advocates. (award given by Arlen Christenson, MEA board president and Melissa Scanlan, MEA founder and senior counsel ) 1999: Mark Redsten on behalf of Clean Wisconsin (then Wisconsin’s Environmental Decade) for critical leadership, fiscal sponsorship, and financial support in launching Midwest Environmental Advocates. (award given by Melissa Scanlan and Arlen Christenson) 2000: Marge Wessely on behalf of Concerned Citizens of Ryan for challenge to livestock factory permit and for participating in systemwide legal challenge to all of Wisconsin’s livestock factory permits, which resulted in first permits in Wisconsin that prohibited manure from flowing into lakes, rivers and streams. (award given by Jim Goodman, MEA board member) 2001: Guy Wolf for getting Xcel’s French Island Incinerator properly designated as a “large” incinerator, which required major reductions in toxic and carcinogenic air pollution. (award given by Mark Kastel, former MEA board member) 2002: Arlene and Hiroshi Kanno on behalf of Concerned Citizens of Newport for preventing Nestle-Perrier from bottling Wisconsin’s spring waters, and serving as a catalyst for the creation of new statewide groundwater laws. (award given by Jodi Habush Sinykin, MEA of-counsel attorney) 2003: Ann and Mike Zelinski on behalf of Citizens for Responsible Agriculture and a Clean Environment for stopping the siting of a 5,000 head beef feedlot in an area with sensitive groundwater, and for mobilizing a busload of people to testify in the State Capitol in favor of local control over siting of livestock facilities. (award given by Glenn Stoddard, attorney and former MEA board member) 2004: Russ Tooley on behalf of Centerville CARES for active water quality monitoring and successful litigation to obtain a fuller environmental review of a massive livestock factory one mile from Lake Michigan. (award given by Jamie Saul, MEA staff attorney) 2005: Carol Brown on behalf of Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians for hosting and organizing the Joining the Waters Forum to bridge native and non-native conservationists in their work to protect clean water. (award given by Florence Edwards-Miller, MEA development director) 2006: Judy and Scott Treml for bringing a successful lawsuit against the livestock factory that contaminated their water and sickened their family, and for raising public awareness of the problem resulting in new statewide regulations prohibiting the spreading of liquid manure on frozen ground during critical months. (award given by Bill Lynch, MEA board member) 2007: Mic Isham on behalf of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians for successfully challenging Flambeau Mining Company’s request to deem its reclamation of the Flambeau Mine complete, and requiring the mine to continue cleaning up the contamination it caused. (award given by Kendra Wochos, MEA litigation paralegal) 2008: Janet Boerboom on behalf of Wisconsin Environmental Law Advocates for protecting the Lower Sugar River by successfully bringing legal challenges and reducing the discharge of nutrients that were clogging the waterways with algae. (award given by Betsy Lawton, MEA staff attorney and interim director) 2009: Jayme Montgomery-Baker on behalf of KPOW! and Making Milwaukee Green Coalition for organizing the community and getting the Milwaukee Common Council to withdraw the idea of privatizing Milwaukee’s drinking water with a 99 year lease to a multi-national corporation. (award given by Karen Schapiro, former MEA executive director) |
MEA sincerely thanks the following “early bird” companies, organizations, and individuals who have shown their support for Midwest Environmental Advocates by hosting or sponsoring the event. We invite you to do the same. It’s not too late to join this distinguished list! If you are interested in becoming an Anniversary Party host or sponsor, please register here or contact Hannah at harris@midwestadvocates.org or 414-302-1857. SPONSORS HONORARY HOSTS HOSTS |
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