Environmental

Coal Clunkers Closing: Public Pressure Finally Shutters Chicago’s Notorious Fisk and Crawford Plants

Coalition Succeeds in Ending Long Standing Health and Climate Threat 

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CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2012.  A deal this morning to close the Fisk and Crawford Generating Stations in Chicago brings a final chapter to one of the nation’s most noted environmental justice stories. The two nearly century-old coal plants have been magnets of controversy for decades because they lack many basic modern pollution controls despite sitting in the midst of some of the city’s densest neighborhoods.…

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