NRDC
We are raising money for the NRDC, money which will go to their valuable work in preserving the wildlife of the Great Lakes and the whole of the Midwest.
Actively Stand Up
CACTA believes that we can help and contribute in many other ways in addition to financial help and we ask our beneficiaries to give us actions that we can all get involved with.
NRDC
The Midwest has more to gain from embracing clean energy than perhaps any other region in the country. Its abundant sunlight, water, wind, and fertile soil can fuel a national energy revolution—and NRDC is helping bring this brighter future to life.
From its Chicago office, NRDC’s experts focus on cleaning up dirty energy and local rivers, protecting communities and the Great Lakes ecosystem, and promoting policies and practices that encourage the growth of renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Some of our accomplishments:
- NRDC helped push forward renewable energy portfolios in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, and other states that will help to transform the energy sectors throughout the region by promoting wind, solar, and other clean energy technologies.
- We stopped dirty coal projects in Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan, halting the construction of a massive new plant and a coal-to-liquid refinery.
- NRDC partnered with local community groups to force the cleanup of dangerous refinery pollution that was plaguing Chicago’s Southeast Side.
- Our experts led the fight to stop municipalities from dumping sewage into the Chicago River and are advancing new solutions to counter the threat of invasive species in the Great Lakes, which provide more than 40 million people with drinking water.
- We battled the expansion of tar sands oil—the dirtiest oil on the planet—pointing out dangers in the aging pipeline system.