Alderman Moore and 100 Advocates Introduce Chicago Clean Power Ordinance

Alderman Moore and 100 Advocates Unveil Chicago Clean Power Ordinance
Ordinance Would Make Chicago one of first to Regulate Coal Plant Pollution

WHEN:     Tuesday, April 13 10:00 AM

WHERE:     Chicago City Hall, 2nd Floor, 121 N LaSalle Street

SPEAKERS:  Alderman Joe Moore
Faith Bugel, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law & Policy Center
Brian Urbaszewski, Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago

VISUALS:      Over 100 advocates will gather in City Hall with signs calling for cleaner air, better health and a greener city.

WHAT:     Community groups will pack City Hall to support the announcement of the Chicago Clean Power Ordinance, which would make Chicago one of the only cities in the nation to limit soot and greenhouse gas pollution from coal plants.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have found that Chicago’s 2 coal plants, the Fisk plant in Pilsen and the Crawford plant in Little Village, are responsible for 41 premature deaths, 550 emergency room visits and 2,800 asthma attacks annually.

The ordinance is one of the first of its kind and will protect public health, promote clean energy and help Chicago live up to its pledge to be the greenest city in America. The ordinance will be introduced by Alderman Joe Moore and is cosponsored by Alderman Sandra Jackson (7th), Alderman Toni Preckwinckle (4th) and Alderman Eugene Schulter (47th).

The Chicago Clean Power Ordinance is supported by: 8th Day Center for Justice, 49th Ward Green Corps, Action Now, Blacks in Green, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Citizen Action / Illinois, Collective Consciousness Movement, Eco-Justice Collaborative, Environment Illinois, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Faith in Place, Greenpeace, Little Village Env. Justice Org., Loyola University – SEA, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Energy Information Service, Peace Productions, Physicians for Social, Responsibility, Pilsen Env. Rights & Reform Org., Radio Arte, Rainforest Action Network, Resource Center, Respiratory Health Association, SE Environmental Task Force, Sierra Club, SolAir Works, Inc., Topless America, Urban Sustain, Wellington Avenue UCC