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OUR MISSION:
We are a legal services non-profit organization that works alongside communities of color and other historically underserved communities who are regularly impacted by environmental and structural poverty issues with an emphasis on legal assistance, advocacy, and community empowerment.
Feature Articles
Wasted Waters: How Southern Illinois is Coping with Decades of Sewage Flooding… and Why it Still Isn’t Solved.
Illinois Answers Project | By Janelle O’Dea
Published June 17, 2025
Cahokia Heights, IL – Advocates Disappointed with Consent Decree for Cahokia Heights: Decades of Flooding and Sewage Crises Remain Unresolved
By Equity Legal Services
December 10, 2024 - Immediate Release
Cahokia Heights loses federal funding for sewer system upgrades
By: Chad Mira
Posted: Apr 16, 2025 / 06:03 PM CDT
