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Clean Energy Jobs Act heads into smoke-filled veto session
Legislators, activists say it smooths path from fossil fuels to solar, wind
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Ted Cox October 23, 2019 Clean Energy Jobs Act , CEJA , Scott Bennett , J.B. Pritzker , Tracy Fox , Central Illinois Healthy Community Alliance , Illinois People's Action , Vistra Energy , Peabody Mining , Renner Barsella , Sierra Club Beyond Coal , Sierra Club , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Vermillion River , Vermillion River Coal Ash , Illinois Coal Ash , Rita Mayfield , Midwest Generation , Juliana Pino , Little Village Environmental Justice Organization , Illinois Youth Climate Strike
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
Pollution panel raps coal contamination
Illinois Pollution Control Board rules coal plants contaminated water in Waukegan, Pekin, Joliet, Will County
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Ted Cox June 27, 2019 Illinois Coal Plants , Illinois Coal , NRG Energy , Midwest Generation , Illinois Pollution Control Board , IEPA , Sierra Club , Sierra Club Beyond Coal , Environmental Law & Policy Center , Prairie Rivers Network , Citizens Against Ruining the Environment , Donald Trump , J.B. Pritzker , Bruce Rauner , Vistra Energy , Dulce Ortiz , Ellen Rendulich , Faith Bugel , Jeffrey Hammons , Andrew Rehn , David Knox
Sierra Club opposes coal-ash water dump
Dynegy’s Wood River power plant in East Alton seeks permit for process environmentalists call ‘cap and run’
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Ted Cox April 22, 2019 Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Sierra Club , Piasa Palisades Sierra Club , Dynegy , Vistra Energy , Wood River Power Plant , Coal Ash , IEPA , Earthjustice , Prairie Rivers Network , Environmental Integrity Project , EPA , Toni Oplt , Metro East Green Alliance , Illinois Environment , Illinois Water
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
Environmental groups push cities for clean energy
Illinois Sierra Club leads formation of Ready for 100 Chicago Collective with eyes also on other state cities such as Evanston
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Ted Cox December 5, 2018 Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Sierra Club , Ready for 100 , Ready for 100 Chicago Collective , LEED Buildings , Rahm Emanuel , Uptake Chicago , Citizens Utility Board , IBEW , Chicago United for Equity , Bronzeville Urban Development , Paul Douglas , Paul Douglas Institute , University of Chicago , Climate Reality Project , Donald Trump , Ravi Baichwal , WLS-TV , Evanston , Evanston City Council , Kady McFadden
IEPA enforcement referrals dropped under Rauner
Gov.-elect Pritzker pledges to ‘protect the environment in Illinois’
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Ted Cox November 21, 2018 Bruce Rauner , J.B. Pritzker , Illinois EPA , IEPA , Sierra Club , Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment , Sterigenics , Lisa Madigan , George Ryan , Rod Blagojevich , Pat Quinn
Trump spreads lies on stump for Bost, Republicans
President, congressman lie about tax cuts and about opponent Brendan Kelly
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Ted Cox October 29, 2018 Donald Trump , Mike Bost , Brendan Kelly , Randy Hultgren , Rodney Davis , Lauren Underwood , Betsy Dirksen Londrigan , Illinois Working Families , Health Care , Obamacare , Affordable Care Act , Tax Cuts , Trump Lies , Nancy Pelosi , Orrin Hatch , First Amendment , Sierra Club , Sierra Club Beyond Coal , CNN , Muslim Ban
Progressive groups protest against Harold
Erika Harold, candidate for attorney general, pledged to uphold state law and protect all Illinoisans against discrimination
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Ted Cox October 25, 2018 Erika Harold , Julie Lynn , Mike Ziri , Planned Parenthood of Illinois , Equality Illinois , Sierra Club , Moms Demand Action , SEIU , NARAL , Barack Obama , Martin Luther King , Obamacare , Affordable Care Act , City Club of Chicagio , City Club of Chicago , Illinois Abortion Rights , Opioid Abuse , Workers' Compensation
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
Pollution panel splits difference on coal-plant rules
The Illinois Pollution Control Board made concessions to environmentalists on clean-air standards and sent the compromise back to the public to reconsider it
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Ted Cox October 4, 2018 Bruce Rauner , J.B. Pritzker , Alec Messina , IEPA , Sierra Club , Piasa Palisades Sierra Club , Illinois Sierra Club , Illinois Pollution Control Board , Illinois Pollution , Dynegy , Vistra Energy , Union of Concerned Scientists , Better Government Association , Brett Chase , Virginia Woulfe-Belle
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
Environmental equilibrium
Alton's Sierra Club balances ecology with the business climate
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Eagles soar anew
Bald eagles return to Illinois, a winter haven to rival Alaska
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