The Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition is calling on municipal-run electric utilities and rural electric cooperatives to update their net metering and interconnection policies in compliance with the right to self-generate electricity policy enshrined in CEJA before the March 14 deadline.
On Tuesday, Feb. 8, the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition is hosting an online town hall on "Your Right to Self Generate Solar Energy." This conversation will focus on increasing access to solar energy for electric customers in municipal and rural electric cooperative territory.
The Creative Reuse Marketplace (CRM) store, opening June 2 in downtown Springfield, is not your typical store. If you're an artist, teacher, scrapbooker, hobbyist, creative.
Why are there caterpillars in your lunchbox? my father asked my elementary school-aged self. What is your first memory of butterflies? When you think of butterflies, do you picture a monarch? How would you feel knowing there are 90% fewer monarchs now than there were in the 1990s? Unfortunately, this is true, and in December 2020 they became a candidate under the Endangered Species Act, meaning monarchs meet the definition of an endangered species, ( listing.is warranted ) but they are not currently being protected. Each monarch weighs as little as a paperclip. It takes four or five generations of these butterflies to fly up from mountain forests in Mexico every spring to as far north as Canada. By late summer, a single super generation emerges to travel the entire 2,500 miles back to Mexico for overwintering. They lay their eggs