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KANKAKEE — Edwin “Ed” James Mullady, 94, of Kankakee, died peacefully on Sunday (Dec. 13, 2020) after a short illness. Loving husband, father, son, brother, grandfather and great-grandfather, Ed was a kind man whose life was devoted to preserving the environment, in particular the Kankakee River. In 2009, the Bourbonnais Friendship Festival committee asked him to be the grand marshal of their grand parade. At the time, local writer Mary Ann Kirsch wrote a lovely article about Ed,...

Her doctors cant say. there have been two few studies to make any conclusions. but i wanted to see the water myself. this is the beautiful river and these waters travel from the foothills of the blue ridge mountains some 400 miles out to the coast of charleston, south carolina. all along the way youre going to see these coal-powered plants like the one behind mean and some call this the most electrified river as a result. with those plants, you see coal ash ponds and that is a concern because if...

River these waters travel from the foothills of the blue ridge mountains who 07 miles to the coast of south carolina along the way you see the coal power plants. . some have called this the most electrified river in america as a result. with the presidents plants you see the coal ash ponds. thats a concern because if there is seepage from the river or the river is inundated because of the breaks in the dam in the pond that would devastate the drinking water for 2 million people in this area. >> ...

River. these waters travel from the foothills of the blue ridge mountains some 400 miles out to the coast of charleston, south carolina. all along the way, youre going to see these coal powered plants. as this one you see behind me. some have called this weather the most electrified river in america as a result. with those plants you see coal ash ponds. thats a concern because if theres seepage from these coal ash ponds into the river or the river becomes inundated with contaminates because of t...

Generation. we dont talk about that anymore because we dont emulate them. >> were not investing in our community. >> well paul talks about spending, i talk about results. why are we measuring progress by how much money and power were giving to government. i want to see results and im seeing results. epa is seeing results. thats even more important. >> the government of the state of new york has just worked with the city of albany to get them to spend $140 million that will take their water quali...

Laws work. we have to keep making them work. because the clean water act was supposed to be done, all the rivers were supposed to be fishable and swimmable. only half the rivers that we are supposed to clean up have been cleaned up. lets finish the job. >> and river keeper has helped make that happen and cooperating with government, passing laws. but they are getting cleaner, right? theres been delay in some of the treatment, but its moving in a cleaner direction. i can fish and swim in the rive...

That stuff has gone down? >> we have to keep making them work because the clean water act is supposed to be done. the waters are supposed to be fishable. only half the rivers we were supposed to clean up have been cleaned up. lets finish the job. >> and river keeper has helped make that happen and cooperating with government, passing laws. but they are getting cleaner, right? theres been delay in some of the treatment. but its moving in the cleaner direction. i can fish and swim in the rivers ri...

Come back. >> go on down there and do not come back. when you are the river keepers and duke energy is the power company, very often the power company wins. not always. last week the river keepers didnt just take their john boats out on the canal, they also flew over the coal ash ponds and from above they took these aerial photographs of the weirdly blue ponds filled with toxic ash. and look what they found. whats going on by that pickup truck down there? the river keeper spotted duke energy pum...

Not say this often, but check this guy out. his name is kemp burdett. hes a river keeper which means he watches out for the health of a river. in this case, the help of the capefear river in north carolina. thursday last week mr. burrdett kra traveled up a canal, the tributary, so he and his friends could take samples of something seeping down into it. particularly interested in this orange stuff, whatever it is, leaving this orange trace along the banks. at the top of that canal, it connects to...

This guy out. his name is kemp burdett. hes a river keeper which means he watches out for the health of a river. in this case, the help of the cape fear river in north carolina. thursday last week mr. burdett traveled up a canal, the tributary, so he and his friends could take samples of something seeping down into it. particularly interested in this orange stuff, whatever it is, leaving this orange trace along the banks. at the top of that canal, it connects to an old shutdown coal burning powe...