Coal Plants Shut Down: Community Activists Show their Strength

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Phil Radford

Earlier this week, Edison International announced that they would shut down the Fisk and Crawford coal plants – a victory for the books! After ten years of gritty and determined grassroots work, communities in Chicago triumphed over the corporate polluter in their back yard. On the same day, citizens in Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania celebrated the announcement that Houston-based GenOn would shut an additional 7 plants, including the Portland Generating Station where Greenpeace worked with NJ and PA residents to demand clean air for their community. Continue reading →

Our Voice Was Heard – Leila Mendez on the Closing of Chicago’s Coal Plants

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Kelly Mitchell

VIDEO: Leila Mendez, a member of the Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization (PERRO), speaking at today’s press conference on the closure of Chicago’s dirty coal plants.

Today, dozens of Pilsen and Little Village residents, along with members of the Chicago Clean Power Coalition gathered across the street from the Fisk coal plant to celebrate the news that two archaic coal plants in Chicago will soon shut down. Continue reading →

Historic moment for people of Chicago

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Kelly Mitchell

Polluting Coal Plants Shut Down Through Community Activism

We have written a lot about the grassroots campaign to close the Fisk and Crawford coal plants in Chicago. These are some of the oldest and dirtiest coal plants in the country, owned by California-based Edison International.

For a decade, citizen activists have been standing up to Edison International and calling for the plants to close. View a timeline of this work. Today, the campaign reached a historic victory – the Fisk coal plant in Pilsen will shut down in 2012 and the Crawford coal plant in Little Village will shut down by 2014. Continue reading →