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No More Coal!

A three-billion dollar coal gasification plant that will turn coal and pet coke into syn-gas is planned for Southeast Chicago under the guise of Clean Energy.  The project will take 3 years to build and will be located on the site of an old steel mill.  It will provide 1000 temporary jobs and 100 – […]

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Back to Nature

Last Friday, things were looking “pretty” at the Task Force office.  Nine eager women showed up for our “Naturally You” pampering workshop.  It was the perfect project for a cold, wintry evening.  The purpose of the workshop was to demonstrate healthy ways in which to pamper oneself with beauty treatments that didn’t contain manufactured chemicals or cost

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Website updates

Please note that we are undergoing some changes at the SETF website (www.setaskforce.org) and the website may be up and down, under construction and a bit finicky for a bit.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. The website updates will not affect this blog, and we will use the blog to keep you

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Outdoor Firing Range Slated for Environmentally Sensitive Area

Nestled between landfills and the Little Calumet River (just south of 134th street and east of the Bishop Ford) river are 130 plus acres of fenced off MWRD property. And on this property exist two ponds preserved by the historic Calumet Open Space Reserve Plan: the O’Brien Lock and Dam Marsh and the Whitford Ponds.

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End of an era

Undoubtedly, this news has reached many Calumet environmentalists through other venues, but in case you are a curious visitor to our blog, Marian Byrnes, founder of the Task Force, passed away on Thursday, May 20th at the age of 84.  A brief obituary that captures the key elements of Marian’s life was posted by Tribune

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