As potential buyers for Midwest Generation’s defunct coal plant sites prepare to come before a Mayor-appointed task force, a local environmental group’s plans for an expansive riverwalk are beginning to seem unlikely.
The EPA wants residents to volunteer their yards for soil testing to determine whether dangerous metals released by local industries settled into the neighborhood.
A company that closed Chicago’s last two coal-fired generators insists there are no hazards on either site but some people who live near one aren’t convinced.
