Amanda Vinicky | August 3, 2021 8:50 pm With as few as weeks from Exelon shuttering a nuclear reactor in Byron, feuding — and politically powerful — interests have failed to reach a deal that would keep the plant open and otherwise move Illinois toward renewable energy goals. The main points that environmentalists and unions have agreed on after months, even years, of negotiating on a major energy deal: That they’re deadlocked, and that it’s time for legislators and Gov. J.B. Pritzker to take charge and to take over talks. Thanks to our sponsors: Environmental groups, under the mantle of the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition, blame organized labor which has organized as the umbrella group Climate Jobs Illinois.