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Here Comes the Sun: A West Pullman solar plant could have real power

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Two hundred ten acres of lead- and arsenic-contaminated land make up the West Pullman Industrial Redevelopment Area, a sprawling complex of vacant lots and caved-in storage sheds. Satellite photos show green trees ripping through the abandoned parking lots on this “brownfield,” a term for polluted land that can be redeveloped for industrial or even residential use after clean-up. This area might see another kind of greening by next spring, if Exelon receives federal funding for a proposed 39-acre, $60 million solar plant claimed to be the largest of its kind in any American urban environment. Read the rest of this entry »

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