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Coal Clunkers: The Post Looks at Chicago's Aging Coal Plants

August 19, 2009

Posted by Henry Henderson in Curbing Pollution

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airpollution, chicago, coal, coalplant, crawfordgeneratingstation, fiskgeneratingstation, illinois, midwestgeneratingllc, pollution, washingtonpost

Coal clunkers. That's how the Washington Post and clean air advocates described the two antiquated coal plants operating in the midst of Chicago. The Post's article focused on the Fisk and Crawford generating stations and a fight to clean or...continued

Dangerous, Dirty, and Done for: Suits Should Help the Sun Set on Dirty Coal Plants in Chicago

July 28, 2009

Posted by Henry Henderson in Curbing Pollution

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chicago, coal, coalplant, crawfordgeneratingstation, fiskgeneratingstation, illinois, midwest, midwestgeneratingllc, pollution, pollutioncontrols, saminsull

Have you ever driven on the Stevenson Expressway in Chicago? If so, you’ve probably passed two of the city's more antiquated relics... They are easy to ignore if you don’t know what you are looking at---we aren’t talking about...continued

Henry Henderson
Henry Henderson
Director, Midwest Program NRDC
Chicago, Illinois
I was born in Granite City, Illinois, a steel town where the coke plant sits...
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