Power Plants

The Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago and its partners have launched a campaign to significantly reduce air pollution from the local Crawford and Fisk power plants. The Chicago Clean Power Coalition is working to pass a Chicago city ordinance that requires the strictest pollution reductions achievable through "Best Available Control Technology," which can include scrubbers and catalytic reduction devices.

The Crawford and Fisk coal-fired power plants are the two largest single sources of deadly particulate-forming air pollution in Chicago and contribute to the region's violations of federal particulate pollution health standards.

Air pollution from these two plants is linked to over 40 deaths, 550 emergency room visits, and 2,800 asthma attacks annually, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Chicago is known as the asthma epicenter of the nation. In Chicago, the asthma hospitalization rate is nearly double the national average. In some Chicago neighborhoods, over 25% of children under the age of twelve suffer from asthma.

With your help, we can pass an ordinance that will save lives and avoid hospitalizations and illnesses. For more information, please contact Brian Urbaszewski at (312) 628-0245.