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CEJA: Stronger than dirty energy
And stronger than ever as sponsors, activists cheer key changes, push for passage this fall
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Ted Cox August 5, 2020 CEJA , Clean Energy Jobs Coalition , Ann Williams , Cristina Castro , Jack Darin , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , ComEd , Dulce Ortiz , Clean Power Lake County , Tony Pierce , Illinois People's Action , Tonyisha Harris , Andrew Barbeau , J.B. Pritzker , Donald Trump
Bobcat 'harvest' remains level
But for the first time more bobcats are taken with traps than with guns or arrows
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State of the State: 'Growing stronger each day'
Pritzker blasts doomsayers, touts achievements, looks ahead to ethics reform, clean energy, lower property taxes
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Ted Cox January 29, 2020 J.B. Pritzker , Pritzker State of the State , Rebuild Illinois , Illinois Legal Cannabis , Illinois Childhood Development , CCAP , Bonnie Brackett , Heartland Kids Early Learning Center , Illinois Ethics Reform , Illinois Criminal Justice Reform , Clean Energy Jobs Act , Ann Williams , Jack Darin , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Illinois Property Taxes
EPA workers demand Bill of Rights
‘The Trump administration has declared war on the EPA and its workers,’ says union leader Nicole Cantello
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Ted Cox January 7, 2020 Donald Trump , EPA , EPA Region 5 , Nicole Cantello , AFGE Local 704 , EPA Workers' Bill of Rights , Felicia Chase , Andrew Wheeler , Cathy Stepp , Brian Urbaszewski , Respiratory Health Association , Loreen Targos , Ronald Reagan , Scott Walker , Jack Darin , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Illinois Environmental Council
Report seeks to spur reinvestment in IEPA
Environmental watchdog ‘between a rock and a hard place’ with fading federal commitment, additional state mandates
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Ted Cox November 26, 2019 EPA , IEPA , Bubbly Creek , Mark Templeton , University of Chicago , Abrams Environmental Law Clinic , University of Chicago Law School , Mary Gade , Doug Scott , Bharat Mathur , EPA Region 5 , Sterigenics , Pat Quinn , Bruce Rauner , Jack Darin , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter
AG Raoul joins suit backing Calif. on car emissions
Bad precedent could affect Clean Energy Jobs Act
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Ted Cox September 24, 2019 Kwame Raoul , J.B. Pritzker , Clean Energy Jobs Act , Xavier Becerra , California Advanced Clean Car Standards , Donald Trump , Howard Learner , Environmental Law & Policy Center , Jennifer Walling , Illinois Environmental Council , Jack Darin , Sierra Club , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Colleen Connell , ACLU of Illinois , Citizens Utility Board
Vistra closing four coal-powered plants
Sen. Manar, environmentalists charge ‘clean’ plants are being closed to leave ‘dirty’ ones operating
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Ted Cox August 21, 2019 Vistra Energy , Dynegy , Andy Manar , Curt Morgan , IEPA , Illinois Pollution Control Board , Illinois Coal , Illinois Coal Plants , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Jack Darin , Illinois Environmental Council , Colleen Smith
Environmentalists cheer new law on coal ash
Pritzker defies Trump trend to tighten environmental regulations
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Ted Cox July 30, 2019 Donald Trump , J.B. Pritzker , Illinois Coal Ash , Illinois Coal , Scott Bennett , Carol Ammons , IEPA , Illinois Pollution Control Board , Vermillion River , SAFE , Colleen Smith , Illinois Environmental Council , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Jack Darin , Howard Learner , Environmental Law & Policy Center , Pam Richart , Eco-Justice Collaborative , Jennifer Cassel , Earthjustice , Dulce Ortiz , Clean Power Lake County
Anti-protest energy bill stalls in Senate
Environmentalists cheer victory over measure that would have turned protest offenses into felonies
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Ted Cox May 30, 2019 Michael Hastings , Jack Darin , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Rich Miller , Capitol Fax , Greenpeace , Annie Leonard , Tabitha Tripp , Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment , Elizabeth Kosuth , Illinois People's Action , Illinois House Progressive Caucus
Jail protesters for felony trespassing?
Sierra Club, House Progressive Caucus rip bill that would have ‘chilling effect on free speech’
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Ted Cox April 11, 2019 Will Guzzardi , Delia Ramirez , Carol Ammons , Jack Darin , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment , Illinois House Progressive Caucus , Legal Marijuana , Illinois Marijuana Legalization , ACLU , NAACP , Kelly Cassidy
Evanston OKs ambitious plan on climate change
The Climate Action and Resilience Plan makes the city the first in Illinois and the 100th nationwide to join the Ready for 100 program from the Sierra Club
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Ted Cox December 11, 2018 Evanston City Council , Stephen Hagerty , Donald Trump , Donald Wilson , Judy Fiske , Eleanor Revelle , Melissa Wynne , Jack Darin , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Sierra Club , Ready for 100 , Ready for 100 Chicago Collective , Lorraine Morton , Elizabeth Tisdahl
Activists cheer election results
Forward Illinois says the election wasn’t partisan so much as it showed widespread appeal for a progressive agenda
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Ted Cox November 7, 2018 Jack Darin , Jennifer Welch , Kady McFadden , Forward Illinois , Planned Parenthood Illinois Action , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , SEIU , Equality Illinois , Mike Ziri , Illinois Minimum Wage , Kwame Raoul , J.B. Pritzker , Bruce Rauner , Donald Trump , Mike Pence , AFSCME Council 31 , Janus v. AFSCME , Janus , Illinois Working Families
Individualists unite! New video
Progressive groups join together under an agenda of interrelated issues they say are ‘overwhelmingly popular with the broader electorate’
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Ted Cox October 9, 2018 Forward Illinois , Jack Darin , Sierra Club , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Jennifer Welch , Planned Parenthood , Planned Parenthood Illinois Action , Yolanda Piper , SEIU , Mike Ziri , Equality Illinois , Bindu Poroori , ICIRR , Zach Koutsky , UFCW Local 881 , Mark Walsh , Illinois Council Agains Handgun Violence , William McNary , Citizen Action Illinois , Working Families , Health Care , Minimum Wage , Unions , Gun Control , Illinois Gun Control , Immigration , Immigrants
Trump dumps Obama gas regulations
Trump's EPA will settle for a tenth of the carbon-dioxide reductions Obama set as a goal in 2015
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Ted Cox August 21, 2018 Donald Trump , Bruce Rauner , Environmental Protection Agency , Illinois EPA , Illinois Coal , Sierra Club , Illinois Sierra Club , Jack Darin , Lisa Madigan , League of Conservation Voters , Gene Karpinski , Trump Tower Chicago , Greenhouse Gases , Climate Change