Selena Kyle, Frank Sturges, and Alyssa Brown the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) join ACS and the Environmental Law Society for a discussion regarding the settlement of NRDC's Clean Air Act citizen suit against the owner of the E.D. Edwards coal-fired power plant outside Peoria, Illinois and environmental litigation at large.

Selena Kyle focuses on complex evidentiary litigation and environmental justice-oriented matters. She served as lead trial counsel for the remedy phase and oversees the settlement of NRDC's Clean Air Act citizen suit against the owner of the E.D. Edwards coal-fired power plant outside Peoria, Illinois. The settlement requires the plant to close by the end of 2022 and provides close to $9 million for Peoria-area bus electrification, low-income energy efficiency, solar, lung health, and job training programs to help support Illinois’s clean energy transition. Kyle has also supported NRDC and Chicago-based environmental justice groups in opposing the proposed relocation of the General Iron metal-shredding facility from Chicago’s wealthy North Side to the Southeast Side, and in pushing for EPA to better study and control methylene chloride pollution that threatens neighbors of hazardous-waste recycling facilities and workers across the country. Her past accomplishments include protecting neighbors of a Tennessee landfill from air and water contamination; defeating a Monsanto challenge to California's decision to list the active ingredient in Roundup as a carcinogen; abating stormwater pollution in Los Angeles County rivers and ocean waters; and blocking a California state budget raid of $155 million in energy-efficiency funding. Kyle is a 2020 recipient of the American Constitution Society's Ruth Goldman Award, for women in the Chicago legal community who have made significant contributions to advance the status of women in the legal profession and the goals of ACS.

Prior to joining NRDC, Frank Sturges worked as a legal intern with Earthjustice and the Western Environmental Law Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, master’s degrees in natural resources and environment and in public policy from University of Michigan, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. Prior to attending law school, Sturges was a Presidential Management Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget and the Bureau of Land Management.

Prior to joining NRDC’s Litigation Team, Alyssa Brown focused on food access as an intern with Missouri Coalition for the Environment, worked as a community and identity building fellow at her college’s intercultural center, and was involved in several equity- and justice-based facilitation and community-building programs. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College in environmental policy and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies.