Emanuel brokers deal to shut two polluting coal fire plants

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Coal fire plants in Chicago’s Pilsen and Little Village communities that belch out lung-damaging pollution will be shut down — one of them by Dec. 31, the other in 2014 — under an agreement brokered by Mayor Rahm Emanuel with a corporate polluter.

Midwest Generation blinked in response to Emanuel’s threat to put his political muscle behind a long-stalled “Clean Power Ordinance” that would have given the Crawford and Fisk power plants a longer timetable to either clean up or shut down.

The mayor has now accomplished that goal — and the corresponding health benefits to area residents forced to breathe polluted air — without a City Council ordinance that could have been challenged and possibly overturned in court.

http://www.suntimes.com/10943296-417/emanuel-brokers-deal-to-shut-two-polluting-coal-fire-plants.html

This is great news! Lots of people in this low income area are suffering all sorts of horrible diseases from the pollution from these plants. Community activists have been fighting for this for years.

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1. like him or dislike him,

and frankly I hate him,
he is doing a hell of a lot around the city.

Not all of it is welcome, but a lot of it is.

Interesting times, tho. For the first time in my memory, the jaws of the law are finally circling around Mare Daley Ver.2.0. His son's lies and fraud may yet come to haunt him.