Trump could be fined $12 million after an Illinois judge ruled his Chicago hotel violated an

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environmental protection law for 3 years

Former President Donald Trump's Chicago hotel is improperly using water from the Chicago River to cool the building in violation of environmental protection regulations, a judge in Illinois ruled this week.

The ruling stems from a 2018 lawsuit against the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, The Washington Post reported. The Illinois attorney general had argued that Trump's property used 19 million gallons of water each day from the Chicago River to cool the property and returned the water to the river at a warmer temperature.

The hotel had initially secured a permit that allowed it to cool the building in this way, but the permit expired in 2017 and was not renewed, according to the report, sparking more than three years of violations.

The Trump Organization, which owns and operates the Chicago hotel, did not immediately return Insider's request for comment.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-could-fined-12-million-144647001.html

[Control-Z]

1. I'm shocked, I tell ya. Shocked.

But in all honestly I've never heard of cooling a building with water this way. Is this a thing that is done all over the country?

[LiberalArkie]

3. Generally it is very efficient. That is how nuclear plants are cooled. They should return the

water about the same temp as they withdrew I would think.

A lot of people down hear use a water cooled heat pump and circulate the water to a pond or in coils of pipe buried in the yard.

[3catwoman3]

2. Do it! Do it!

Do it!

[Blue Owl]

4. Proceed

[Initech]

5. There is nothing that he does that is legit. Nothing.