{"id":2692,"date":"2013-12-26T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2013-12-26T07:41:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T13:41:06","slug":"chicago-leads-way-sustainability-policies-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/chicago-leads-way-sustainability-policies-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Leads the Way in Sustainability Policies on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Over the last ten years, the City of Chicago has made inroads in reducing pollution in carbon emissions.<span>\u00a0<\/span>According to a recent study, Chicago has used traditional planning and land-use authorities to become the North American leader in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/greenbuilding\/pubs\/faqs.htm#1\">green building<\/a> practices.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Chicago has also aggressively been using its buying and convening power to lead as a model to other cities.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/city\/en\/depts\/mayor.html\">Mayor Rahm Emanuel<\/a>\u00a0has led an effort to shut down the last remaining coal plants in Chicago.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Like all cities, Chicago has limited authority to control climate change.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Governments strive to regulate emissions or industry energy-efficiency standards.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The federal statutes reserve most of the authority for national government on climate issues.<span>\u00a0<\/span>In order for a city to fit into the federal regulations, it must take independent action to make an impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">One way that cities work around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/air\/caa\/\">Federal Clean Air Act of 1970 <\/a>and the Federal Environmental Protection Agency is to work with land-use regulation that cities do control.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Zoning and planning allows each individual city to shape physical and economic development in its area.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/chicago-leads-way-sustainability-policies-climate-change\/#more-2692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last ten years, the City of Chicago has made inroads in reducing pollution in carbon emissions.\u00a0According to a recent study, Chicago has used traditional planning and land-use authorities to become the North American leader in green building practices.\u00a0Chicago has also aggressively been using its buying and convening power to lead as a model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-stories","category-firm-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chicago Leads the Way in Sustainability Policies on Climate Change  &#8212; 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