Emanuel gives coal plant operator an ultimatum to clean up Emanuel gives coal plant operator an ult

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I think we should give kudos to Rahm when he does the right thing. From the Chicago Tribune:

After months of negotiations, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is giving the owner of Chicago's two coal-fired power plants until next week to figure out how to clean up some of the city's biggest sources of lung-damaging pollution.

If Midwest Generation doesn't broker a deal by then, an influential alderman said Tuesday, Emanuel's City Council allies will push an ordinance that could force the Crawford and Fisk plants to shut down within the next two years....



Last fall, Emanuel's office considered a deal floated by Midwest Generation that would have shut down the coal plants in return for a long-term contract to buy electricity from a wind farm the company owns in northwest Illinois. But House Speaker Michael Madigan scuttled the idea, forcing the city, company and others back to the negotiating table.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-coal-plants-20120223,0,4358715.story