Support for Clean Power Ordinance Growing while City Delays

A committee hearing on the Chicago Clean Power Ordinance drew hundreds of supporters to City Hall today. Congressman Bobby Rush, Chicago Medical Society President David Loiterman, and representatives from labor, health, community and environmental groups testified in support of the Ordinance at a packed hearing before the City’s Health and Energy, Environment and Public Works Committees. With Council Chambers over capacity, over 100 activists waited for hours in the lobby for their chance to testify in support of the ordinance that would the reduce the dangerous pollution the Fisk and Crawford coal plants in Chicago.