A week ago, eight Greenpeace activists scaled a 450-foot smokestack at the Fisk coal plant in Chicago and painted QUIT COAL on the side. That same day, a different team of activists rappelled off a bridge and blocked a shipment of...

This is a guest blog by Luis Arriaga, a Greenpeace volunteer leader in Chicago. Growing up next to a state park was a blessing. I got to experience nature first hand, but there is something off about Silver Springs State Park. ...

This morning, one hundred people gathered at Chicago’s City Hall to announce the reintroduction of the Clean Power Ordinance. This precedent-setting city law would require Edison International’s Fisk and Crawford coal plants to...

Before dawn, eight Greenpeace activists climbed the 450 foot smokestack at the Fisk power plant in Chicago. From the stack, they demanded that the operators shut down the dirty, dangerous Fisk and Crawford coal plants. The Fisk...

Tucked just behind the Chicago skyline, in the historic neighborhoods of Little Village and Pilsen, leer the smokestacks of the Fisk and Crawford coal plants. For almost a century, these stacks, owned by Midwest Generation, have spewed...

This weekend, as part of the 350.org International Day of Climate Action, Chicago’s Roll Beyond Coal rally and march brought people together from across the city to demand an end to the toxic pollution from the Fisk and Crawford coal...

On May 24th eight activists scaled and occupied the 450 foot Fisk coal plant in Chicago and painted "Quit Coal" on the smokestack. That same day, a separate team of activists blocked a coal barge headed for Chicago's Crawford coal...