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WALDRON—The greenery peeked through a fresh blanket of snow on Jay Williams’ farm.  Over the past few winters, Williams has added a variety of cover crops across his 1,350-acre operation near the Ohio border. There are peas, oats and radishes rising from soil that used to lay fallow through the cold-weather months. ‘ Ready or not — the Great Lakes as a climate refuge The Great Lakes region is frequently touted as one of the most climate-resilient places in the U.S., in no small part be...

Federal appellate judges heard debate over whether claims of bias against two commissioners who approved the power line’s construction are enough to halt the project. Howard Creek in the Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Brandon Jones/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) CHICAGO (CN) — The tug-of-war over a major electric transmission corridor proposed to run through two Midwest states arrived back before a Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday, where attorneys and judges raised qu...

Less than a decade old, the Prairie State Generating Station is among the top 10 industrial sources of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the United States, emitting as much as 2 million cars combined every year.

Court scraps Trump administration power plant rules Steven Mufson, The Washington Post Jan. 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - A federal appellate court on Thursday scrapped a Trump administration rule that eased limits on carbon dioxide emissions from coal and natural gas-fired power plants, and it effectively revived the Obama administrations tougher Clean Power Plan. In sweeping away the Trump administrations regulation, dubbed the Affordable Clean Energy rule, the decision by the D...

Federal circuit court scraps Trump administration’s power plant rule Steven Mufson © J. David Ake/AP The Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo. A federal appellate court on Thursday scrapped a Trump administration rule that eased limits on carbon dioxide emissions from coal- and natural-gas-fired power plants, and it effectively revived the Obama administration’s tougher Clean Power Plan. In sweeping away the Trum...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a Trump administration rule on carbon dioxide emissions, effectively restoring President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which limited those pollutants from power plants.

With the Earth on track to finish out another year among the warmest on record and the impact of climate change mounting around the globe, advocates around the Great Lakes are looking ahead to what a new administration could mean for the Midwest, the region containing one of the world’s largest freshwater sources.

Great Lakes advocates hope new administration will take on climate change Morgan Greene, Chicago Tribune © Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS High water levels from Lake Michigan flood the lakefront trail south of Chess Pavilion on North Avenue Beach in Chicago on June 16, 2020. CHICAGO — With the Earth on track to finish out another year among the warmest on record and the impact of climate change mounting around the globe, advocates around the Great Lake...

In this year’s installment of its annual Highway Boondoggles report, U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group warn of billions of dollars in proposed spending on unnecessary highway projects that would divide our communities, deprive transit of scarce funds, and pollute our air and water. Below is the third of seven installments detailing these harmful projects. It’s our annual December donation drive. Please give from the heart (and wallet!) by clicking here. Thanks. Illinois off...