ELPC is the Midwest’s leading environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. ELPC protects the Great Lakes and fights for safe, clean water and healthy clean air for all. ELPC combines effective public interest litigation with strategic policy advocacy, sound science, and economic analysis. ELPC produces strong results for the environment in the courtrooms, boardrooms, and legislative hearing rooms across the pivotal Midwest states and in Washington D.C. ELPC public interest attorneys filed a federal court lawsuit on behalf of Friends of the Parks and the Alliance of the Southeast to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed new toxic dredged wastes landfill along the Lake Michigan shoreline in the Southeast Side environmental justice community that has long been overburdened by toxics pollution. The Illinois EPA denied or refused to approve three required state water quality permits. Combined with the lawsuit, that forced the Army Corps to withdraw its environmental impact statement and proposed toxics landfill. The next steps are cleaning up the site and planning for a new lakefront park.