April 21 Hearing for Clean Power Ordinance

The ordinance that would cut harmful pollution from Chicago’s only two
coal power plants is now supported by a majority of aldermen,
supporters from the Clean Power Coalition claim. A joint hearing of
the Committee on Energy, Environmental Protection and Public Utilities
and the Committee on Health has set a hearing for 10:00 a.m. in the
city council chambers, 121 N. LaSalle St. The legislation currently
has 26 co-sponsors of the 50 aldermen.

Since March 7, Aldermen Solis (25th), Austin (34th), Brookins (21st),
Cardenas (12th), Daley (43rd ) Fioretti (2nd), Maldonado (26th),
Newsome (4th) and Tunney (44th) have announced that they too will
co-sponsor the ordinance, bringing the total number of co-sponsors to
26. Others, such as Alderman Stone (50th) and are not co-sponsors,
but have pledged to vote in favor of the ordinance.

The Chicago Clean Power Ordinance was introduced in April 2010 by Ald.
Joe Moore (49th Ward) in response to the health and environmental
damage created across the city by the Fisk and Crawford coal plants in
Pilsen and Little Village. The ordinance would drastically reduce soot
and greenhouse gas pollution from the two plants, thereby reducing the
number of hospitalizations and premature deaths caused by the plants’
pollution and lowering the estimated $127 million in public health
costs the plants create each year.
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