Rachel's Democracy & Health News #867  [Printer-friendly version]
August 10, 2006

CHICAGO RESIDENTS ARE MOBILIZING -- AND YOU'RE INVITED

[Rachel's introduction: Chicago is home to two coal burning power
plants and Illinois is home to 25. Their pollution pumps mercury,
soot and smog into the air, causing asthma and brain damage to
thousands of children. Now residents are organizing to fight back.
Join up!]

By Tim Montague

Please join the Chicago Clean Power Coalition for a town-hall style
meeting to learn what you can do to make Chicago and Illinois a more
livable and healthy place to live, work and play. Please come to our
next bi-weekly meeting on Chicago's near south side.

When: Wednesday, August 23, 2006;
Where: 2856 S. Millard Ave Chicago
IL 60623-4550 (held at the offices of Little Village Environmental
Justice Organization; tel. 773.762.6991).

For more information http://www.ChicagoCleanPower.org or contact Tim
Montague: tim@rachel.org

Did you know... Chicago is home to two coal burning power plants.
Their pollution pumps mercury, soot and smog into our city's air just
a few miles southwest of the downtown, causing asthma and brain damage
to thousands of children in the Chicago area.

The agreement reached between the coal power industry (Ameren) and
the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, announced on August 1st
2006, is a significant setback for improving our state's polluted air
from dirty coal power plants. Organized action by residents is needed
now to take back our right to healthy air.