Nancy Loeb
Nancy Loeb is an environmental activist. She is board chair of the Environmental Law and Policy Center.
As of 2020, she was the boards of the National Women's Law Center, and the Chicago Bar Foundation (Chair, Advocacy Committee). She is also a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Character and Fitness and the Illinois Supreme Court Planning and Oversight Committee on Judicial Evaluation. She is a member of the Bar in Illinois, New York and Washington, D.C.
Confronting Racial Injustice
Nancy Loeb joined Robin Walker Sterling, Sam Tenenbaum, and Sheila A. Bedi at Northwestern University for the "Bluhm Legal Clinic Webinar Series: Confronting Racial Injustice" event on November 11, 2020.[1]
'holding harmful companies accountable'
Excerpt from a 2020 article at Medill Reports Chicago[2] titled "Meet the climate activists across Chicago holding harmful companies accountable":
- Nancy Loeb, clinical professor with the Pritzker Law School and director of the Environmental Advocacy Group at Northwestern University, has been working with grassroots climate organizations and monitoring vulnerable regions like the South Side for years. In defending these critical communities, she notes the paradox of their work.
- “We don’t know what we don’t know,” she said. Loeb explained that community leaders’ push for better breathing conditions forced facilities like KCBX Terminals in the South Side, owned by Koch Industries, to put up air quality monitors about three years ago.
- Only through this facilities requirement did they learn about the presence of manganese in the air. Manganese is a neurotoxin linked to Parkinson’s-type syndromes and may also affect brain development.
- “As far as I know, there hasn’t been the kind of widespread testing or monitoring to know everything that’s there,” Loeb said. “So we don’t know what people are breathing.”
'met with very high level EPA officials' about 'environmental racism'
Nancy Loeb discusses her accomplishments thanks to the Northwestern Public Voices Fellowship:[3]
- Nancy Loeb's op-eds on environmental racism have been published in a wide range of print and online media, including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and Quartz, and resulted in a feature story with the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN). Nancy’s TIME op-ed on the Flint water crisis resulted in interview requests with NPR and VICE News, and invitations to speak at The Illinois Campaign for Political Reform and The Loyola University Chicago School of Law. "I have been working on lead issues for the past two and a half years, and have met with very high level EPA officials to try to influence policy in this area," said Nancy. "I have no doubt my voice is now being heard on this issue in a way I could not have achieved without the Public Voices Fellowship."
Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
In 2008, Nancy Loeb and Jeffrey Colman were listed as sponsors/financial contributors to the Chicago-based Business and Professional People for the Public Interest.[4]