A new city ordinance, announced today, would limit the amount of pollution that Chicago's two coal-fired power plants can produce. The Clean Power Ordinance was sponsored by Alderman Joe Moore of the 49th Ward, co-sponsored by Aldermen Sandi Jackson (7th), Toni Preckwinkle (4th), and Gene Schulter (47th), and supported by more than 30 businesses and nonprofit groups.
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Aldermen to Coal Plants: Clean Yourselves Up
EPA Threatens Chicago Over Dirty Air
The EPA has put Chicago and it's surrounding metro area on notice: clean up your air in five years or else.
The agency on Monday released a list of counties and urban areas that violate the revised standard. Six northeastern Illinois counties are on the list—Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will. Also cited are two fast-growing townships in Grundy County and one in Kendall, because pollution there is believed to contribute to the wider problem.It seems our area of the nation suffers from elevated levels of soot in the air and the EPA is in the midst of taking action against five coal-fired power plants (the EPA must have played SimCity growing up) in the area owned by Midwest Generation. Two plants are located in Chicago in the Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods and the other plants are located in Joliet, Romeoville and Waukegan. However, recent tests show that new standards in place have already had an effect on cleaning the air. But if we don't make good, what will the EPA do? While "fines" and "shutting down factories" are the obvious answers, we guess there's also taking our air via Mega Maid.
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