Episode 461 (Thurs, April 16, 2020 at 7:00pm) - The Quarantine Edition [materials] [audio] Topics: The Empty City; The City Responds to COVID-19; Business Impacts of Shutdown; Virtual Public Meetings; Coronagendas; The Digital Divide in Sharp Focus; Disparate Impacts - Some can work at...
That’s when the Sierra Club got into its first big coal fight over a proposed billion-dollar plant south of Chicago, a welcome-to-the-NFL episode. The Chicago area already had poor air quality—the coal plants around the Loop were known as the Ring of Fire—and local volunteers, led b...