Clean Power
LVEJO statement on passage of Future Energy Jobs Bill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2016 LVEJO statement on passage of Future Energy Jobs Bill Contact: Juliana Pino – jpino@lvejo.org, Phone number: 312-344-3143 SPRINGFIELD, IL — The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) is pleased to announce the passage of the Future Energy Jobs Bill after years of education, hard-fought negotiation, and collaboration through the […]
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Redevelopment ahead for Chicago’s two coal plant sites
Chicago Tribune, Jule Wernau. When Chicago’s last two coal plants shut down two years ago, residents who had lived amid the plants’ pollution were still angry. “You killed my mother,” one woman told the president of Midwest Generation, the coal plants’ owner, at a hearing to determine how to redevelop the sites. Residents in Pilsen […]
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The goal of this project is to improve the environmental quality on this section of the Chicago River System and to make it a cherished public amenity.
The Pilsen-Little Village River Corridor Project was established in 2014 to develop a master plan that will result in a healthier, more accessible Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal corridor from Bubbly Creek to west of Pulaski Road on Chicago’s southwest side. It is the goal of this project not only to improve the environmental quality […]
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