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Posts tagged Climate Change
Casten reports on Madrid climate conference
‘We were treated with great respect, with great gratitude for being there,’ says Downers Grove congressman
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Ted CoxSean Casten, Climate Change, Madrid Climate Conference, COP25, Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Madeleine Albright, Claire Perry O'Neill, Antonio Guterres, Paris Agreement, World Meteorological Organization, University of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker
U. of I. declares climate emergency
President Killeen joins more than 200 universities in signing letter delivered to Madrid climate conference
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Ted CoxClimate Change, Global Warming, Timothy Killeen, University of Illinois, UIUC, UIC, University of Illinois System, University of Illinois at Springfield, Madrid Climate Conference, COP25, Greta Thunberg, Antonio Guterres, Illinois Youth Climate Strike
UN head warns of encroaching 'point of no return' on climate change
Secretary-General Guterres urges ‘taxing pollution instead of people’
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Ted CoxUnited Nations, Antonio Guterres, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming, Inger Andersen, UN Environment Programme, Greta Thunberg, Illinois Youth Climate Strike, Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Marcia Bernicat
UN climate report calls for emission cuts now
‘We need to catch up on the years in which we procrastinated,’ says UN agency head
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, United Nations, UN Environment Programme, Inger Andersen, Paris Agreement, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gases, Greta Thunberg, Illinois Youth Climate Strike, Clean Energy Jobs Act
Conservative DePaul prof. rags on Greta
Tenured Jason Hill courts controversy anew with attack on ‘ecofascist’ and ‘your smug generation’
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Bustos presents Rural Green Partnership
Congresswoman recruits farm communities to take on climate change
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Ted CoxCheri Bustos, Climate Change, Global Warming, Sonny Perdue, Illinois Farmers, Illinois Farm Bureau, Illinois Corn Growers Association, Rural Broadband, Richard Guebert Jr., Rodney Weinzierl, Callie Eideberg, Environmental Defense Fund, Howard Learner, Environmental Law & Policy Center
Trump imposes 'illegal directive' on EPA
Members of Congress join EPA workers in charging ‘attack on science,’ environment, and civil servants
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Jan Schakowsky, Danny Davis, Don Villar, Scabby the Rat, EPA, Nicole Cantello, Climate Change, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Illinois Environmental Council, Colleen Smith, Matt Muchowski, AFGE, AFGE Local 704, Chicago Federation of Labor
Renewable energy tops coal for capacity
Capacity isn’t actual generation, cautions research group, but U.S. trend is clear
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Pritzker clears obstructions for wind farms
Governor signs law removing townships from approval process
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Break in China trade talks yields soybean buy
Illinois Farm Bureau calls for efforts to recapture lost trade
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Ted CoxDick Durbin, Illinois Farm Bureau, Illinois Soybeans, Trump Trade War, Trump Tariffs, U.S.-China Trade, Chicago Board of Trade, Terry Linn, E-15, Climate Change, Donald Trump
Trump energy rules draw flak at Chicago hearing
The president’s Affordable Clean Energy plan ‘is not affordable, and it is not clean,’ says AG Lisa Madigan
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Lisa Madigan, Pleasant Plains, Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Change, Clean Air Act, Clean Air Standards, Juliana Stratton, Michael Mikulka, AFGE, AFGE Local 704, Girl Scout Troop 6195, Dulce Ortiz, Tony Pierce, Clean Power Lake County, Waukegan
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 CoxDonald 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
The unexpected guest
Snowy owl tests the capacity of TreeHouse Wildlife Center and Rehab Manager Rachael Heaton
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