Republican State Senator Sue Rezin is sponsoring a bill that would designate nuclear power as a carbon free form of energy. Rezin says the Climate Union Jobs Act will help
Nearly 50 legislators identifying as the Illinois Legislative Green Caucus signed a letter Wednesday asking leadership to make equity and utility accountability the foundation of an energy overhaul bill expected
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In Illinois, we’re used to tough weather. We sweat on the softball field in the summer, freeze on our way to work in the winter, and we don’t shy away from a little rain. But the weather in Illinois is getting more unpredictable and extreme every year with hotter summers, colder arctic blasts, and worsening severe storms. In fact, right now Chicago is in the middle of one of the driest spring seasons on record.
This isn’t a coincidence. It’s climate change.
We have an obligation to our future generations to take bold action now to protect our planet. But any legislative change to slow the devastation of climate change could have a big impact on workers, especially those working at Illinois’ nuclear plants, currently our largest provider of clean energy.
SPRINGFIELD â Illinois budget officials said Thursday that revenues are flowing into state coffers at a faster pace than previously estimated, meaning lawmakers will have more money to work with as they try to finalize a new budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
The Governorâs Office of Management and Budget officially raised its revenue estimate for the current fiscal year by more than $1.4 billion and by $842 million for the upcoming fiscal year.
Those figures are similar to the latest revised estimates from the General Assemblyâs budget monitoring agency, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, which said last week that revenues for the current year would go up about $2 billion while next yearâs revenues would be $792 million more than previously forecasted.