Edward Warden

The petition protesting Illinois’ Coal Curriculum program can now be signed online! While signing post cards is still the best way to go, the online form is handy for those schools who may be winding down for the semester and going on break. Check out the link below to sign the online post card: SIGN ME!!! Let’s take this viral! Remember, [...]

This past Monday, the Tenaska bill, which would okay the construction of a coal gasification plant in Taylorville, was passed though the Illinois senate. The fact that Tenaska is a coal plant is reason enough to oppose it, but within the bill is also provisions that force the gas it produces to be purchased by several [...]

It seems like coal rears its ugly head just about everywhere these days and we can only tackle so much. Whether it’s Fisk and Crawford owned by Midwest Generation and the effort to shut them down via the Clean Power Ordinance, the coal curriculum funded by the Illinois DCEO and the post card drive to [...]

In an exciting new development, Northwestern University announced Friday that it had hired a new Sustainability Coordinator. The move comes after a two year long campaign spearheaded by Students for Ecological and Environmental Development (SEED). With a change of university president in September 2009, students saw their chance and sent in over 1500 post cards [...]

So guess what? Coal thinks they can fool us. Another notorious “Clean Coal” projects is slated to be built on the Southeast side of Chicago. This community has already been subject to decades of industrial pollution. It is not time to place yet another polluter there but to create true green jobs. This Saturday Chicagoans [...]

DePaul University was the place to be this weekend when over 30 students from across the region gathered to address Illinois’s environmental issues at the annual ISEC Conference. The two day conference consisted of several training and networking sessions plus a guest speaker. The majority of the first day, Saturday, was spent on leadership training. [...]

The Clean Power Coalition has a current goal of giving Midwest Generation (the company who owns Fisk and Crawford in Chicago) and Edison International (Midwest Gen’s parent company) 40 calls a day. The purpose of this is to continue pressuring them to close Fisk and Crawford coal plants down for good. We are so close [...]

There has been lots of attention given to coal issues as of late. From dramatic and destructive mining practices such as mountain top removal in Appalachia to the many heroic efforts across the country that have either shelved new coal plant proposals or shut down old ones. But on Saturday, October 1 students from across [...]