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A View from Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconson on SaltWise and SaltSmart Practices

7/18/2024

 
This program was held on August 15, 2024, and recorded from Zoom.  The recording is at the right.  

Our speakers were Hannah Miller, Watershed Program Manager with The Conservation Foundation in Illinois; Allison Madison, Manager of the Wisconsin Salt Wise Program; and Brooke Aslesen, Watershed Specialist with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. 
Below is the original blog post used to advertise this program.  ​

Salt is a big problem for streams, lakes and rivers in the Upper Mississippi Basin.  Salt - sodium chloride - breaks down into sodium, which is absorbed on soils, and chloride, which moves freely through soil and builds up in water bodies.  (Read more about trends in chloride in this post!)  

Once salt goes down on roads or sidewalks, it doesn't go away. Salt levels are rising in lakes, streams, and rivers in Illinois. Overuse of salt during the winter can damage our built and natural environments. We can protect our natural resources and reduce road salt without sacrificing safety. Working towards better practices is a multi-faceted endeavor. Programs like the Salt Smart Collaborative, a program of The Conservation Foundation, encourage the use of Salt Smart practices in winter maintenance operations. Salt Smart practices are the best practices for winter maintenance operations that reduce salt use and provide safe surfaces. Resources (like workshops and trainings, the Salt Smart Certified program, and targeted outreach materials) are made available through the Salt Smart Collaborative to transportation agencies, municipalities, park districts, and private contractors to encourage and support the adoption of the best practices for salt use. 

This event on August 15 will help us to build our understanding on this important topic in water quality!  
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This graphic from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency shows the sources of salt (chloride) in the environment.  States like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois have programs to address chloride, and in our upcoming program on August 15, we will hear about these programs.  

Our speakers will be Hannah Miller, Watershed Program Manager with The Conservation Foundation in Illinois; 
Allison Madison, Manager of the Wisconsin Salt Wise Program; and Brooke Aslesen, Watershed Specialist with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.   This panel will share information on salt managment programs in their respective states, which will provide a background for understanding this topic.

Both the Minnesota and Wisconsin legislatures had bills on salt management in the 2024 sessions.  It is important for advocates to understand the background of currrent practice as we move into the 2025 session.   The Minnesota bill (HF3565 and SF3954) died in the 2024 legislature, and Governor Evers vetoed the Wisconsin bill  (Senate File 52).     
Background and References: 
LWV Duluth Environmental Action Committee Meeting & Izaak Walton League 
January 17, 2024
"Putting Duluth on a Low (Road) Salt Diet"

Click here to view the recording of this presentation​
This recording features a panel of three speakers from New Hamshire, which has implemented a salt program which is a model for other states.  


UMBRA Report on Mississippi River Water Quality   (Upper Mississippi River Basin report)
Decades of Road Salting Is Polluting the Mississippi River  (Milwuakee Journal Sentinal)
The Impact of Road Salt on Local Waterways  (Wisconsin legislation)
SPEAKERS FOR THE AUGUST 15 EVENT: 
                     Hannah Miller, Illinois                                                                Allison Madison, Wisconsin                                           Brooke Aslesen, Minnesota         
Hannah Miller, The Conservation Foundation
Hanna Miller is a Watershed Project Manager at The Conservation Foundation working on reducing the impacts of chlorides. She is the workgroup coordinator for the Chicago Area Waterways Chloride Workgroup and the co-coordinator for the Salt Smart Collaborative. Hanna graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in Geoscience. Outside of work, Hanna can often be found cycling along one of the many waterways in the Chicago area.
Allison Madison, Wisconsin Salt Wise Program
Allison Madison is the Wisconsin Salt Wise Program Manager. Since assuming her role in June 2020, she has spearheaded collaboration around salt reduction in watersheds across the state. Her work takes her to mall parking lots, urban streams, County Highway shops, and the Capitol building. Allison has 10+ years of experience in science and sustainability education in both formal classrooms and National Parks. Allison graduated from St. Olaf College and has a joint MS in Environment and Resources and Soil Science from the University of Wisconsin. She's passionate about protecting Wisconsin's freshwater resources and celebrating their beauty by paddling, swimming, cross-country skiing, etc.
Brooke Aslesen, Minnesota Chloride Reduction Program
Brooke Aslesen has worked at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency since 2007 where she works collaboratively with federal, state, local partners, and research institutions to protect Minnesota’s water resources. She has been working on chloride and water quality issues at the MPCA for over 16 years. The core of that work has been developing partnerships with a wide variety of experts and professionals to develop strategies that reduce chloride while supporting public needs.

Brooke now coordinates the MPCA’s Chloride Reduction Program that includes the highly successful Smart Salting training program as well as the new Chloride Reduction Grant program, the Smart Salting Tool and many other resources to help communities and organizations reduce salt use and protect Minnesota's water resources.
Brooke earned her Master’s degree in Water Resources Science from the University of Minnesota. Her undergraduate degree is in Environmental Science with a minor in Soil Science also from the University of Minnesota. Prior to attending graduate school, she worked in the Metropolitan Council’s Metro Wastewater Treatment Plant lab.


Healthy Communities, our Water and Watersheds

5/2/2024

 
LWV Wheaton, in cooperation with SCARCE, sponsored a panel discussion on water and watersheds on April 24.  This talk featured LWV UMRR's Gretchen Sabel, Sarah Hunn of the DuPage County Stormwater Division , Eric Neidy of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, and Kay McKeen of SCARE.    LWV UMRR was among the organizations that had display materials available and was on hand to talk with the attendees.   The video of this event is posted to the right.   ​
In this video, our speakers talked about watershed restoration and how natural infrastructure is so much more effective at flood control than constructed dams, impoundments and hardscapes.   An interesting Q&A followed, moderated by Jenny Whidden, Climate and Environment reporter from the Daily Herald and brief remarks by Illinois State Senator Laura Ellman, author of recent legislation to protect Illinois wetlands left unregulated by the Sackett decision.   Each speaker started out by discussing their journey to becoming a water resource professional and the watersheds they are tied to.  

The organizations represented in this event, and the people who represented them:

LWV UMRR  - Gretchen Sabel, Communications Director
DuPage County Stormwater Division - Sarah Hunn,  Director, DuPage County Stormwater Management
Forest Preserve District of DuPage County  Eric Neidy, Director of Natural Resources
SCARCE - Kay McKeen, Founder and President
Above: Sarah Hunn, Kay McKeen and Eric Neidy

Pure Water Iowa exhibit hits the road!

4/18/2024

 
With help from a grant from the Mississippi River Network, LWV UMRR and artist Christine Curry will be showing up at venues up and down the river with this display.  Come and see it when it's in your area!  Here's a partial list - sign up to get updates as we travel!
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Friday, April 12-20: Pure Iowa Water—Pop Art Exhibit Opening Reception Friday, April 12 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Galena Public Library, Galena, Illinois.  Exhibit remains on display until April 20th. 
For more details, click here.

Monday, April 22-23: Pure Iowa Water—Pop Art Exhibit will be at the Musser Public Library in Muscatine, Iowa with a special Earth Day program starting at 6 p.m., Monday, April 22nd.   
For more details, click here.

Wednesday, April 24-25: Pure Iowa Water—Pop Art Exhibit will be at the Environmental Learning Center in Muscatine, Iowa, with a special presentation at Thursday, April 25th at 10 a.m.
For more details, click here.

Many more dates to come, from St. Paul to St. Louis!  Sign up to get updates and come see the exhibit when it comes to a river town near you!  

CO2 Pipelines - Background for Dec 4 Presentation

11/17/2023

 
We provide here some background information to help you prepare for the December 4 webinar.  

This video - CO2 Pipelines 101 - is an excellent resource to start with. 
Here, Peg Furshong and Maggie Schuppert from CURE discuss a leak that happened in Sartortia, Mississippi and other possible problems with the pipelines. The environmental and human health threats of carbon pipelines are clearly laid out.   Peg will be a panelist on the Dec 4 program.
CO2 pipeline companies are having limited success in getting the land easements and permits they need to complete their projects.  The EcoJustice Collaborative in Illinois reports regularly on CO2 progress in their blog -check it out at this link.   

Pam Richart from EJC will be a panelist on Dec 4.   She 
cofounded the Coalition to Stop CO2 pipelines in January, 2022. Since that time, she has been leading the campaign to stop CO2 pipelines throughout central Illinois. The coalition includes 13 organizations, and hundreds of active landowners along the pipeline route.  The Coalition’s campaign includes education of landowners and elected officials that has led to the adoption of resolutions and moratoriums in impacted counties, and intervention before the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), which is where the pipeline can be stopped.  The Coalition maintains a website that documents progress of the campaign, as well as includes resources for landowners, including webinars prepared by the Coalition.   
In Iowa, the Sierra Club has taken the point in statewide work on the CO2 pipelines.  Updates are posted on their website here.  In October of 2022, we had Jess Mazour speak on pipelines - you can view the video of her talk at this post on the UMRR blog.   On December 4, we will host Jan Norris, an activist from Montgomery County, Iowa, who will report from the frontlines of  local pipeline opposition.  
CURE has been following pipeline progress in Minnesota, and leads action through their project, Carbon Pipelines Minnesota.   This webpage has information on current events in Minnesota.  
Several of the pipeline projects are intended to transport CO2 from Iowa and Minnesota to North Dakota.  North Dakota denied Summit's permit application in August, it's now being reproposed.  This article on the Associated Press website says:  
​[The North Dakota utility regulators} last month unanimously denied Summit a siting permit for its 320-mile proposed route through the state, part of a $5.5 billion, 2,000-mile pipeline network that would carry planet-warming CO2 emissions from 30-some ethanol plants in five states to be buried deep underground in central North Dakota.

Supporters view carbon capture projects such as Summit’s as a combatant of climate change, with lucrative, new federal tax incentives and billions from Congress for such carbon capture efforts. Opponents question the technology’s effectiveness at scale and the need for potentially huge investments over cheaper renewable energy sources.

The panel denied the permit due to issues the regulators said Summit didn’t sufficiently address, such as cultural resource impacts, potentially unstable geologic areas and landowner concerns, among several other reasons.
The pipelines would pass through South Dakota, which also denied Summit Pipeline's permit application.  This September 11 2023 article  on the Associated Press website states that the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission unanimously turned the request down.   Without access to the North Dakota CO2 depository, the pipeline projects have to keep redesigning their projects.  
Why are carbon pipelines being proposed?  Why are investors and the federal government putting money into these projects?  We know that carbon in our atmosphere is causing the earth to warm, which will disrupt our climate and all life on earth.  Reducing or eliminating carbon emissions is critical, and there are many different ideas about the best ways to do it.  One controversial approach we've been taking for the past two decades is to switch from fossil fuels to 'biofuels' - ethanol and biodiesel.  In this post on the UMRR Blog, we reported on a February 2022 report that looks at the utility of ethanol as an option for reducing carbon emissions.    

The ethanol industry is seeking ways to improve its environmental performance, especially as relates to carbon emissions.  One way to do this is to capture the carbon that is released into the atmosphere.  The pipelines would move the captured and compressed CO2 to eventual storage and/or reuse.  The first two short YouTube videos following provide some more background on why the ethanol industry sees carbon capture as a way forward.  The third is a video that provides more information on the process of capturing carbon from industries.
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Carbon capture is part of President Biden's climate plan.  This link goes to an article in the MIT Review interview with Shuchi Talati, chief of staff at the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management.  Here, Talati talks about the need to have a range of processes for reducing carbon.  We have included a number of references at the end of this post that provide more information on pipeline technology and DOE work on carbon capture.  Carbon pipelines are currently used in Texas to transport CO2 for use in extracting oil from spent oilfields, there are also links to information on this practice.  ​

The Clean Water Act Implementation after Sackett

10/4/2023

 
What does the Sackett decision mean for the Clean Water Act, and the streams and wetlands that are no longer protected?  In LWV UMRR's November 6 educational event, we discussed the implications of the Sackett vs EPA decision that restricted implementation of the Clean Water Act.   

The video at the right, 1.12 hours long, includes detailed information on the history leading up to the Sackett decision , and where we go from here.

Our guest speaker was Rob Lee, staff attorney for Midwest Environmental Advocates (bio below).  Rob provided a brief history of the Clean Water Act (CWA) prior to 2015 regulations defining Water of the US (WOTUS), and the 2020 Navigable Water Protection Rule.  Then he'll talk about the May 2023 Supreme Court Ruling and the now revised regulations just issued by US EPA and the Corps of Engineers with a final revised definition of Waters of the US.  

Once Rob has set the stage, LWV UMRR's Gretchen Sabel will present information on the status of wetland regulation in the UMRR states based on a 2022 analysis by the Environmental Law Institute, followed by a look at LWV positions that relate to actions supporting strong implementation of the CWA.   We'll round out the hour with discussion period led by LWV UMRR Chair Mary Ellen Miller.  
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Priest Lake in Idaho; photo NBC News

You'll find more information 
on the Sackett decision here and here on the LWV UMRR blog.  Here's a link to an excelllent blog article by Jared Mott of the Izaak Walton League that also provides background.  
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Does it take an act of Congress to protect the Mississippi?

3/23/2022

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The answer is that Congress is one piece – an important one – of the solution to the Mississippi’s woes.  In the UMRR Annual Meeting, we will have an exciting panel of speakers to talk about bills currently in the US Congress that have the potential to greatly affect our river.  We will also explore the idea of a “compact” between river states to protect the river from water diversions.  This session will set the stage for the work that LWV UMRR will tackle in the years to come.  

Join LWV UMRR for this session on May 21 at 10:30.  This meeting will be held in Webinar format on Zoom - pre-registration is required.  
Click this link to pre-register!  You will receive the link to the meeting by return email; we will send reminders in May, including on the 21st.   Registration is open until the meeting starts on May 21 at 10:30.  

​We have a great slate of panelists for this session - representatives from other organizations working for the river and leading work on federal bills and big ideas.    We will cover the Mississippi River Restoration and Resilience initiative (MRRRI), the Safeguarding the Mississippi River Together initiative (SMRT), the Farm Bill reauthorization and a big idea - the notion of an Upper Midwest Compact to protect the waters of the Mississippi from diversion.  Our speakers represent organizations that are working to protect the Mississippi.  ​
MRRRI Update
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Alicia Vasto, Water Program Associate Director,  Iowa Environmental Council

​Alicia joined the Council in 2019. She grew up in Adel, Iowa. She previously worked as the director of the Iowa
Conservation Education Coalition, where she supported environmental educators and advanced environmental literacy. Alicia holds a Master of Environmental Management degree from Duke University with a focus on land conservation and management, and an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from the University of Notre Dame. In her free time, she enjoys cycling, travel, and yoga.

SMRT Update
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Brandt Thorington,
Policy Director,  Mississippi River Cities and Town Initiative

Brandt serves as the Policy Director for the MRCTI, specializing  in analyzing legislation affects, building coalitions and advancing legislation. His primary areas of expertise are  appropriations,
tax policy, budget, energy, health care, immigration reform, homeland security, public safety, transportation, water infrastructure, and community development. Brandt has extensive experience working with various levels of government including Congress, federal officials, state legislators, mayors, and other local officials.
Farm Bill Update
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Lara Bryant, Deputy Director, Water and Agriculture, Natural Resources Defence Council

Lara Bryant promotes soil health practices and policies that protect water quality, use water more efficiently, and help farms to be more resilient to climate change. Prior to joining NRDC, she worked on sustainable agricultural policy at the National Wildlife Federation and World Resources Institute and was a chemist at a private environmental laboratory. Bryant holds a bachelor’s degree in plant and soil science from the University of Tennessee and a master’s degree in public administration in environmental science and policy from Columbia University. She works out of NRDC’s Washington, D.C., office.
Upper Midwest Charter
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 Kirsten Wallace, Executive Director, Upper Mississippi River Basin Association

Kirsten Wallace was appointed executive director of UMRBA in 2017, following over 10 years focusing on the Association's ecosystem, navigation, and flood initiatives.  Kirsten works with UMRBA's member states to develop  regional positions, advocate the states' collective interests before Congress and the federal agencies, and facilitate and foster interagency coordination, cooperation, and communication.
Kirsten serves on the Board of the Interstate Council on Water Policy, America's Watershed Initiative, and the National Waterways Foundation.
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Thinking Like a Watershed hosts LWV UMRR Chair Mary Ellen Miller - Recording now available!

3/1/2022

 
Championing the Upper Mississippi River Region  
Mary Ellen Miller, President, League of Women Voters Upper Mississippi River Region
How a life-long conservationist became an advocate for the Mississippi…an LWV president discusses conservation & change
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Conservation activist and self-proclaimed tree-hugger, LWV UMRR Chair Mary Ellen Miller shared the League’s connection between advocacy, voting and the state of the river.  She discussed the work that members are involved with to improve soil health and water quality and how they are working with others in the Upper Mississippi River network to take action for change.  Here's the link see a recording of her talk.

This monthly series is a project of the Upper Mississippi River Initiative (UMRI) of the Izaak Walton League of America/MN Division, with co-hosts Chris Henning of the Panora Conservation Chapter and Des Moines Chapter Communication Director, Bud Hartley.  This program feature guests for 30-40 minute presentations that shed daylight on good works done in the name of the Mississippi and its uplands. In this way we uplift our shared goals for a cleaner river, a cared for environment, and kinder communities. Recorded  programs are available shortly after they air live.

February's program featured Kelly McGinnis of the Mississippi River Network.  You can see the .
“The POWER of 1 Mississippi & 20,000 River Citizens” Thinking Like a Watershed ~ Kelly McGinnis— February 22nd, 2022   How 58 organizations team up to drive policy—“Can the river count on you?” A call to action…

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How Did We Get Here?   Fifty Years of Federal Farm Policies

11/3/2021

 
Monday, December 6th 1:00 pm - Discussion with columnist Alan Guebert.   The video of this Zoom meeting is available on the LWV UMRR YouTube channel at this link.   Due to inexperience of the Zoom operator, the recording was done in "gallery" mode until the discussion period, but the audio is good and there were no slides.  

Guebert shared his perspectives on the impacts that federal farm policies have had on our economy, our communities and our environment.  
Watch this blog for information on our February meeting, on the simulation "En-Roads Climate Change Workshop".  Jackie Armstrong giving us a live demo on how that software program works.  This will be an evening presentation - 6:30 pm on February 7.  
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Extract from Guebert column, Hey Genius, Mind your Own Business:   "... our pedal-to-the-metal food system rarely pays farmers and ranchers to do the cheaper-in-the-long-run right thing and often pays them to do the more-profitable-in-the-short-run wrong thing.

Even our federal farm programs focus on fixing problems after they occur, not before; programs like federal crop insurance, the Conservation Reserve Program, the Environmental Quality Incentive Program, the Market Facilitation Program, and soon, on-farm carbon sequestration.  ...


Alan Guebert bio:  Alan Guebert was raised on a 720-acre, 100-cow dairy farm in southern Illinois. After graduating the University of Illinois in 1980, he served as an associate editor at Professional Farmers of America in Cedar Falls, Iowa and Successful Farming magazine in Des Moines. Later he spent eight years as a contributing editor for Farm Journal magazine of Philadelphia.
 
In 1993, Guebert began the Farm and Food File, a weekly newspaper column on farm and food policy and politics. Twenty-eight years and 1 million words later, the Farm and Food File continues to be published weekly in 26 states and two Canadian provinces.
 
Guebert currently lives in Madison, WI, with his spouse, the lovely Catherine. They have two children and three grandchildren.

Should You Drink That?                                                                              The Unfolding Story of PFAS in our Lives

8/12/2021

 
The video of this webinar is available for viewing now at this link:  https://youtu.be/SodForAydqQ
Since the 1940s, manufacturers have relied upon a class of man-made toxic chemicals that is resistant to heat, water, stains, grease, oil and friction. PFAS, or Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, have provided consumers with popular products such as nonstick cookware, stain-resistant furniture, and water-repellent clothing. Teflon, Scotchgard, Stainmaster, and Gore-Tex are just a few examples of brand names containing PFAS. The manufacture and use of PFAS in consumer products and firefighting foam are so widespread that 99% of Americans have PFAS in their blood today.
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On October 4, LWV UMRR hosted a panel discussion on PFAS. Our presenters helped us understand how PFAS have become a big part of our lives – present in food packaging, household products and drinking water – and what we know about how they affect our health. As awareness of PFAS contamination grows, communities are struggling to cope with tainted drinking water while engaging in advocacy to increase public awareness and bring about constructive change. Watch the video to learn what the federal government and states are doing to establish safe standards for drinking water and ban the use of PFAS in manufacturing. Most importantly, learn what you can do to help protect yourself, your family and your community.
                                                                          
                                                                                   
                 OUR  PANEL

Jeff Lamont – Retired hydrogeologist, works with SOH2O (Save Our H2O) to ensure safe drinking water for residents in Northeast Wisconsin and to advocate for state and federal standards for PFAS compounds. Jeff resides in the Tyco/JCI groundwater contamination plume in the Marinette and Town of Peshtigo area and has a private well impacted by PFAS. Jeff and his wife have been living with bottled water for drinking and cooking for the last 3.5 years.

Erika Schreder – Science Director, Toxic-Free Future, conducts and publishes research on toxic chemicals, their presence in people and products, and safer alternatives.

Deanna White – Minnesota Director, Clean Water Action, coordinates EPA and state level interactions for policy and legislation. Deanna has an extensive background in community organizing and advocacy.

To learn more about how you are exposed to PFAS and PFAS regulation in your state, check out this LWV UMRR-researched background sheet with information on PFAS  from Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin.  
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Tollway Sustainability - April 5, 2021

3/2/2021

 
Many thanks to Bryan Wagner, Environmental Program Manager for the Illinois Tollway System, for this talk on April 5!  His talk, linked at the right, provides an excellent overview of the many measures the Illinois Tollway has undertaken to improve environmental performance of these very busy highways.   You will be impressed - and his talk with make the journey across the tollway system that much more interesting! 
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​(For a closer look at Bryan's slides, scroll down.) 
 The Illinois Tollway stretches 294 miles (473 km) of tollways in 12 counties in Northern Illinois.  This highway system includes these tollways: 
  • Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-39/I-90/US 51)
  • Veterans Memorial Tollway (I-355)
  • Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway/Chicago–Kansas City Expressway (I-88/IL 56/IL 110)
  • Tri-State Tollway (I-80/I-94/I-294)
  • Elgin-O'Hare Tollway (IL 390)
These highways are VERY busy, carrying freight, travelers, commuters, deliveries, everything.  The Jane Addams Memorial Highway (I-90) had an average daily traffic count of more than 55,000 vehicles, 11,000 of which were trucks.  The roads are built for safety, speed and yes, sound environmental performance.   
Here's an example of the types of measures that are being undertaken:
The Illinois Tollway’s Landscape Master Plan was developed with the goal of establishing and maintaining healthy tree communities throughout the Tollway’s 294-miles, 5 roadways and 12 counties.
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OBJECTIVES: In partnership with The Morton Arboretum and the Chicago Region Trees Initiative, this Master Plan will guide Tollway efforts to:
  • Install 58,000 trees with the intent of increasing regional tree canopy coverage
  • Develop experimental approaches to planting that could test new ideas for tree installation and care in stressful roadway conditions
  • Develop maintenance programs to better ensure the long-term viability of future planting efforts
  • Evaluate and develop a diverse list of plant species and material suitable for high speed roadways
  • Identify viable living snow fence locations
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