Alderman Joe Moore (49th Ward, Chicago) pledges to introduce an ordinance in the Chicago City Council to enact Clean Air policies that would effectively ban coal burning power plant with the city. ...
Alderman Joe Moore (49th Ward, Chicago) pledges to introduce an ordinance in the Chicago City Council to enact Clean Air policies that would effectively ban coal burning power plant with the city. Chicago's Fisk and Crawford coal plants are some of the city's biggest contributors to global warming.
http://www.howgreenischicago.org/ On the October 24th, 350's International Day of Climate Action, Chicagoans protested outside of one of our city's biggest polluters--the Fisk Coal Plant in Pilsen. The Fisk Generating Plant and the Crawford Generating Plant in Little Village are only two of the 5 coal-plants owned by Midwest Generation across Illinois. They are the oldest and dirtiest plants in the country and everyday spew global warming pollution into the atmosphere.
Coal-Fired Power Plants in Chicago http://www.pilsenperro.org/coalpower.htm Like most coal-fired power plants in Illinois, because of their age, the Fisk and Crawford power plants are exempt from federal regulations that require modern pollution control devices. The Fisk plant was most recently rebuilt in 1958 and Crawford in 1959. The idea behind grandfathering the 1950s-era plants in the 1977 Federal Clean Air Act was that the dirty old plants were going to be replaced by more modern, cleaner plants in a matter of years. This was costly error in judgment we are still suffering through and fighting to correct.
The current federal framework for reducing power-plant pollution nationwide, the so-called cap and trade program, allows heavy pollution to be concentrated in areas that are home to people who are most vulnerable to the ill health effects from it, areas with lower-income individuals and minorities who are disenfranchised from the political process and power structure. This is the core concept of environmental injustice.
Chicago: Climate Message At Fisk Coal Plant, Part Of 4,000+ Global Actions http://www.basilandspice.com/process/... Chicagoans are sending a strong message for immediate climate action at the Chicago Climate Action (CCA) rally and march, one of more than 4,000 simultaneous actions worldwide conducted as part of the International Day of Climate Action, the largest day of global climate action ever organized.
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Note: None of the power generated at Fisk and Crawford is actually sold to Illinois utilities, but rather is used to maintain reliabity of the electrical grid during peak times. Chicago residents are therefore bearing the ill health effects of dirty plants that send their product elsewhere.
What degree does this speaker have or is he just repeat what someone else said like the majority of the go green people. I have all for clean energy but good goly. You have to phase out coal and oil gradually not rapidly. Else energy prices may rice and blackouts may occur. I am a proponent of Nuclear energy over Wind or Solar but it must be gradual.
The fear of global warming seems to go straight to these peoples minds, rational thought evaporates.
I'm sure that Alderman Moore's office would make a copy of his curriculum vitae available to you on request.Not sure I appreciate your characterization of "go green people".
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The fear of global warming seems to go straight to these peoples minds, rational thought evaporates.
I'm pretty sure I do.