For decades, the fruits of the fracking revolution, plus our newly minted status as the world’s top net exporter of natural gas, demonstrated that American consumers were swimming in bountiful energy. But as the pandemic effects of […]
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The company Navigator CO2 announced on Oct. 20 it is nixing plans for a 1,300-mile pipeline to take carbon dioxide from ethanol plants across five states to be sequestered in Illinois. While Illinois residents […]
Illinois is looking to close the loop on its booming solar industry. A new Illinois state law asks a task force to consider banning the dumping of solar components and batteries in landfills. If […]
Update: On Friday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker vetoed SB76, the legislation that would have repealed the state’s moratorium on new nuclear power plants. Illinois’s moratorium on new nuclear power plant construction will stay in place […]
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed SB 1817 into law, which mandates landlords must rent property to illegal immigrants. Democrats in this ultra-progressive crime-ridden state are under fire for prioritizing the needs of migrants over the […]
Illinois consumer and environmental groups are arguing in filings before the state commerce commission that there is racial disparity and “environmental racism” in Peoples Gas’ record of disconnection and reconnection in Chicago, as the […]
Illinois’ largest solar farm is being built thanks to buy-in from the city of Chicago, helping the city’s government meet its climate goals of 100% clean energy by 2025. The Double Black Diamond Solar Farm, […]
Illinois’ ambitious distributed solar incentive program has reopened and is quickly clearing an application backlog after stalling for months in 2022 and early 2023 while transitioning to a new program administrator. As of June 1, […]
Southern Illinois can be a mental health care desert, with residents forced to drive hours to seek care for mental health and substance abuse issues. But that is changing thanks in part to state […]
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