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riversedge

(69,707 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 03:23 PM Aug 2018

Illinois sues Trump Chicago property for allegedly violating river protection rules

Source: the hill




By Timothy Cama - 08/14/18 03:05 PM EDT


Illinois’s attorney general is suing a Chicago property owned by President Trump’s company, alleging that it is violating environmental laws meant to protect the Chicago River.

The Trump International Hotel and Tower takes in nearly 20 million gallons of water daily from the river for cooling various systems and puts it back at a higher temperature.
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Madigan also alleged in Cook County court that the Trump Tower’s permit to use the water under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System expired nearly a year ago.

“Trump Tower continues to take millions of gallons of water from the Chicago River every day without a permit and without any regard to how it may be impacting the river’s ecosystem,” Madigan said in a Tuesday statement. “I filed my lawsuit to make sure Trump Tower cannot continue violating the law.”

The Trump Chicago property is owned by the Trump Organization, the real estate firm owned by Trump through a revocable trust.............................................

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/401795-illinois-sues-trump-chicago-property-for-allegedly-violating-river

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Illinois sues Trump Chicago property for allegedly violating river protection rules (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2018 OP
Send them (Trump Org) nykym Aug 2018 #1
Oh now....Donnie and his grease ball kid are above silly laws like that..... Bengus81 Aug 2018 #2
Shut the water off, that's what most cities utilities do when you don't pay the bill............... turbinetree Aug 2018 #3
That's not how it works frazzled Aug 2018 #4
Thank you Lisa Madigan!! blue-wave Aug 2018 #5

nykym

(3,063 posts)
1. Send them (Trump Org)
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 03:27 PM
Aug 2018

a cease & desist order and fine them for an expired license.
Then when they apply for a renewal change the terms to
include returning the water at the proper temperature and free of any chemicals or pollutants.
All to the tune of "Cry Me a River".

Bengus81

(6,907 posts)
2. Oh now....Donnie and his grease ball kid are above silly laws like that.....
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 03:27 PM
Aug 2018

Fuck it,go shut the valve off that lets water in and let that building become a sauna.

turbinetree

(24,631 posts)
3. Shut the water off, that's what most cities utilities do when you don't pay the bill...............
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 03:31 PM
Aug 2018

but keep this one shut off permanently.........after all he has been proven to be a dead beat................


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough...................vote

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
4. That's not how it works
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 04:52 PM
Aug 2018

Those large buildings sited on the river take it directly themselves. Here’s an explanation from the Tribune earlier this summer:


State records obtained by the Tribune show the president’s glass-and-steel skyscraper is one of the largest users of Chicago River water for its cooling systems, siphoning nearly 20 million gallons a day through intakes so powerful the machines could fill an Olympic swimming pool in less than an hour, then pumping the water back into the river up to 35 degrees hotter.

Like other large users that draw water directly from rivers or lakes, Trump Tower is required to follow federal and state regulations detailing how facilities should limit the number of fish pinned against intake screens or killed by sudden changes in pressure and temperature.

Yet of the nearly dozen high-rises that rely on the Chicago River for cooling water, the decade-old skyscraper developed by Donald Trump is the only one that has failed to document it took those measures, state records show. Trump’s Chicago managers also haven’t conducted a study of fish killed by the luxury hotel and condominium complex — another step required five years ago by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency in a permit for the building’s water intakes.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-trump-tower-fish-kill-20180618-story.html

blue-wave

(4,313 posts)
5. Thank you Lisa Madigan!!
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 08:27 PM
Aug 2018

And also to your father, Mike Madigan. Two great Democrats that have done much for Illinois and our country.

I know there are anti-Madigan people on this site. But you'll never change my mind. From the Madigan's support of unions and the middle class, to their standing up to Rauner's attempted takeover of Illinois, to fighting Trump, they show what public service should be about: Improving people's lives.

Now go ahead naysayers, attack away. I can take it.

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