Crossroads Fund congratulates the Chicago Clean Power Coalition, including past and present Crossroads Fund grantees the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, the Pilsen Alliance, the Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization, the Nuclear Energy Information Service, and the 8th Day Center for Justice, on winning their long running campaign to close two coal-fired power plants in Chicago. These Crossroads Fund grantees spent years organizing from the ground up, educating their neighbors, engaging in protest and direct action, working with their aldermen and partnering with environmental research and advocacy organizations to fight these power plants that were destroying the environment and damaging the health of their communities.“This victory demonstrates the power of grassroots organizations like the groups we fund to fight and win against huge corporations and entrenched political interests. Closing the Fisk and Crawford power plants will not only clean the skies over Chicago, but it will also save countless lives,” explains Crossroads Fund Executive Director Jeanne Kracher.
