[rayiner]

The problem in Chicago and Illinois is the same as in Beijing. Cheap dirty coal power. Environmentalists in Chicago recently won a battle to shut down two coal plants that were in city limits and costing citizens hundreds of millions a year in health damage. But a lot remains to be done in the state.

[pkkim]

Holy shit, as someone who worked a tiny bit on that campaign, never thought I would hear Fisk and Crawford mentioned on HN.

[rayiner]

Neat! I didn't work on that campaign, but I worked at the Northwestern Environmental Advocacy Center (on the DePue Superfund site), and we had a close relationship with ELPC, which did one of the economic reports establishing how bad those plants were for Chicago.