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After a seven-year wait, the state of Illinois will finally begin issuing monarch butterfly specialty license plates.

Today, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias unveiled the monarch butterfly decal license plate, which will directly support Illinois' efforts to foster habitats that support these critical pollinators.

Plans for the proposed Hunter Lake are moving forward despite a federal agency not recommending the project.

The EPA recommends denial of the City of Springfield's permit to build Hunter Lake.

A report released by the Sierra Club reveals that 9 million Illinois residents live in areas that regularly experience air that the EPA has determined is unsafe to breathe.

Navigator CO2 Ventures formally canceled their proposed plan to construct a 1,350-mile carbon dioxide pipeline spanning five Midwestern states.

Navigator announced on October 20 it is nixing plans for a 1,300-mile pipeline to take carbon dioxide from ethanol plants across five states to be sequestered in Illinois. Illinois advocates say the fight isn't over.

Peoples Gas requested a $402 million rate hike for next year, and environmental and community activists are protesting against it.

The Illinois Attorney General's office filed a pending lawsuit against CWLP, alleging that in 2021, the company released 700 tons of coal ash into the environment.

Today, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a lawsuit against Springfield's municipal utility CWLP for multiple violations when it released a massive dust cloud of coal ash in August 2021.