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The 2013 Green Awards
The entire country was watching last fall when energy company Midwest Generation powered down the boilers at Fisk and Crawford, its two remaining Chicago-based coal-burning plants. Such headline-driving environmental victories are usually few and far between. But there are quieter coups that happen in this region every year that are worthy of celebration. Chicago’s 2013 … Read more
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