As part of an effort to alleviate Pilsen residents' concerns over the alleged adverse health conditions caused by local pollution, the Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization held a public hearing on Wednesday night with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Read more »
Just two months into his tenure as chairman of the Chicago City
Council’s Hispanic Caucus, Ald. Danny Solis (25th Ward) talked to
Progress Illinois about both the group's upcoming remap battle and his stance in the push for clean air in Chicago.
A hearing about the Clean Power Ordinance, which would impose new limits on particulate matter and carbon dioxide emitted by Chicago's two coal-fired power plants, brought hundreds of supporters and opponents to City Hall today. Hard hat-wearing power plant employees, who said they were worried about losing their jobs if the bill is passed, packed the council's main chambers while green-clad environmental campaigners, who have long criticized how pollution from the Fisk and Crawford plants affects human health and contributes to climate change, periodically chanted outside as aldermen took testimony this morning. Read more »
Aldermanic and community supporters of a bill that would force Chicago's two coal-fired powered plants to clean up gathered in City Council chambers today for an unofficial hearing. Aldermen aligned with Mayor Richard Daley have not allowed the bill to come up for an on-the-record hearing.
Clean air advocates and some progressive members of the Chicago
City Council aren't waiting any longer for two coal-fired power plants to clean up their act.
As part of an effort to alleviate Pilsen residents' concerns over the alleged adverse health conditions caused by local pollution, the Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization held a public hearing on Wednesday night with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. 
A hearing about the Clean Power Ordinance, which would impose new limits on particulate matter and carbon dioxide emitted by Chicago's two coal-fired power plants, brought hundreds of supporters and opponents to City Hall today. Hard hat-wearing power plant employees, who said they were worried about losing their jobs if the bill is passed, packed the council's main chambers while green-clad environmental campaigners, who have long criticized how pollution from the Fisk and Crawford plants affects human health and contributes to climate change, periodically chanted outside as aldermen took testimony this morning. 
