Just asking: Will alderman Ed Burke actually follow through on his latest environmental proposal?

Burke, the longest-serving alderman in the council, is widely assumed to have more clout than anyone else in city government except the mayor.

Over the years he’s proposed a series of an impressive environmental reforms, from tightening restrictions [PDF] on the city’s two heavily polluting coal-fired power plants to limiting the use of dangerous dry-cleaning chemicals to banning plastic shopping bags.