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Credit Illinois Public Radio With two more days until the scheduled adjournment of the General Assembly’s spring legislative session, negotiations on a high-stakes deal to steer Illinois away from carbon-causing energy sources — as well as a host of other goals from ending controversial formula ratemaking and forcing ethics reforms as a utility-involved corruption investigation looms large — have reached impasse, according to multiple sources engaged in bargaining. As of Saturday night, p...

Credit: Chuck Berman/TNS Exelon says that it will close the Byron Nuclear Generating Station near Rockford, pictured, and another in Grundy County unless Illinois lawmakers grant subsidies. Years ago, opposing nuclear power was cool. A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island lit a nationwide fire in 1979, when an estimated 200,000 anti-nuke p...

AP file photo Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he wants to put more electric cars on Illinois roads. He is missing an opportunity to jump-start that effort. Thirteen states and the District of Columbia have joined California in setting higher standards for auto emissions than those required by federal law. Illinois should join them and also become part of a coalition of states that is pushing more stringent standards for big trucks. Illinois would be cementing its emerging status as a leader in producin...

5 2 1.9 billion Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration  Gov. J.B. Pritzker has also outlined a goal of being carbon-free by 2050. President Joe Biden during a global climate summit this month also announced plans to cut America’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. An audit commissioned by Pritzkers office, released last week, found that two of the plants may need a public subsidy of up to $350 million over five years in order to stay open.  President Bidens two-day vi...

World leaders virtually attend the Leaders Summit on Climate, during the opening session, as seen on a screen at Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, April 22, 2021. The virtual event attended by many national leaders from their countries around the globe to raise global ambition on climate change is taking place on Earth Day, and hosted by President Joe Biden. Mustafa Kamaci/Turkish Presidency via AP Illinois sits in the crosshairs of climate change...

AP Photos For many Chicagoans, the revival this week of the nearly 60-year-old tradition of Plumbers Union Local 130 dyeing the Chicago River green for St. Patrick’s Day — a surprise event after it first was canceled by the city — was a welcome sign that things are returning to normal. However, was dyeing the river green ever “normal” to begin with? When this tradition began in 1962, the Chicago River, after a century of horrific environmental abuse, was thought of as more a quasi-se...

By Greg Bishop - Illinois Radio Network The extreme winter weather and sub-zero temperatures are causing power outages in some areas and natural gas price spikes in others.  Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has declared a disaster after the recent winter storm. Some central Illinois natural gas customers this weekend were told by local officials a unit of natural gas costing $3 could increase to $600. In one statement from Utility Gas Management, a management service for municipally-owned natural g...

(The Center Square) – The extreme winter weather and sub-zero temperatures are causing power outages in some areas and natural gas price spikes in others. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has declared a disaster after the re...

The extreme winter weather and sub-zero temperatures are causing power outages in some areas and natural gas p...

Chicago Sun-Times. February 13, 2021.