Tim Farquer News Today

More than $5.8 billion of the $7.8 billion in federal funds awarded to Illinois schools since March 2020 has been spent. In Chicago, the school system faces a $391 million shortfall for the 2024-25 school year.

For decades, East Moline was a bustling town along the Mississippi River fueled by International Harvester employing thousands of residents to manufacture farm equipment.

Virginia environmentalists are seeking Farm Bill funding to help Chesapeake Bay conservation efforts. The proposed Chesapeake Bay Conservation Acceleration Act would fund programs designed to improve water quality in the bay. One program helps farmers prevent runoff which has led to increased nitrogen and phosphorus pollution, driving up harmful algae blooms. ...

A look at the changeover to more energy efficient school buses.

A powerful citizens watchdog group has published a report explaining why it sees the Indiana Economic Development Corporations Limitless Exploration and Advanced Pace project as bad. Indiana has committed about $1 billion to the project, to divert millions of gallons of water a day from Tippecanoe County to Boone County for a high-tech industrial park. Kerwin Olson, executive director of the Citizens Action Coalition, said the project is poor public policy and his group is asking the state to ...

New York is looking at different ways to make use of where to place solar panels. The practice of dual-use solar uses solar panels in a variety of forms, ranging from shade canopies for cars to a houses awning, but this is becoming a common agrivoltaic practice. Solar panels are being installed on farmland growing crops or home to livestock production. ...

What started as a school project for students in one Illinois district has led to the successful changeover to more energy efficient school buses. The path to zero-emission buses began in 2014, when STEM students at Williamsfield High School started a science project for a solar-powered microgrid on their rural campus. And last year, the transportation transition began when the new standard C-72 school buses were ordered. ...

For decades, East Moline was a bustling town along the Mississippi River fueled by International Harvester employing thousands of residents to manufacture farm equipment.

For decades, East Moline was a bustling town along the Mississippi River fueled by International Harvester employing thousands of residents to manufacture farm equipment.

The EPA made $400 million available in an effort to get diesel-run school buses off the road, with a special focus on low-income communities.