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Credit Illinois Public Radio With two more days until the scheduled adjournment of the General Assembly’s spring legislative session, negotiations on a high-stakes deal to steer Illinois away from carbon-causing energy sources — as well as a host of other goals from ending controversial formula ratemaking and forcing ethics reforms as a utility-involved corruption investigation looms large — have reached impasse, according to multiple sources engaged in bargaining. As of Saturday night, parties remain far apart on the linchpin of the deal: how much the state should provide in subsidies ...

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...

AP file photo Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he wants to put more electric cars on Illinois roads. He is missing an opportunity to jump-start that effort. Thirteen states and the District of Columbia have joined California in setting higher standards for auto emissions than those required by federal law. Illinois should join them and also become part of a coalition of states that is pushing more stringent standards for big trucks. Illinois would be cementing its emerging status as a leader in producing electric vehicles. Rivian Automotive, a startup in downstate Normal, is close to producing electr...

5 2 1.9 billion Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration  Gov. J.B. Pritzker has also outlined a goal of being carbon-free by 2050. President Joe Biden during a global climate summit this month also announced plans to cut America’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. An audit commissioned by Pritzker's office, released last week, found that two of the plants may need a public subsidy of up to $350 million over five years in order to stay open.  President Biden's two-day virtual climate summit has wrapped up. World leaders, activists and organizations from around the...

World leaders virtually attend the Leaders Summit on Climate, during the opening session, as seen on a screen at Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, April 22, 2021. The virtual event attended by many national leaders from their countries around the globe to raise global ambition on climate change is taking place on Earth Day, and hosted by President Joe Biden. Mustafa Kamaci/Turkish Presidency via AP Illinois sits in the crosshairs of climate change. The success of President Joe Biden’s ambitious Earth Day plan to curb the global crisis is criti...