Renewable energy cheated in uneasy coalition with Exelon nuclear, in Illinois
How Pay-to-Play Politics and an Uneasy Coalition of Nuclear and Renewable Energy Led to a Flawed Illinois Law, Inside Climate News
State lawmakers are running out of time to fix 2016 clean energy legislation.
By Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News and Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-TimesMay 21, 2021
This article is the result of a partnership between Inside Climate News and the Chicago Sun-Times.
CHICAGO Just over five years ago, the Illinois Legislature passed a plan that aimed to build a solar power industry from scratch while saving thousands of jobs at two struggling nuclear plants.
How Pay-to-Play Politics and an Uneasy Coalition of Nuclear and Renewable Energy Led to a Flawed Illinois Law
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Illinois law promised clean energy, solar boom along with Exelon nuclear bailout, hasn t delivered on creating one off the greenest states: Sun-Times | InsideClimate News special report
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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 protesters flocked to New York for a demonstration six months after what remains the nation s closest brush with nuclear energy catastrophe. Tens of thousands marched elsewhere. If they can open one on an earthquake fault, they can put one anywhere, musician Jackson Browne told the Associated Press in 1981, when he and nearly 2,000 other demonstrators were arrested for attempting to blockade a plant under construction in California, where the governor two years earlier had been amo