May 3, 2024
A group of lawmakers and influential environmental advocates are calling for broad changes to the state’s energy industry and a massive increase in state oversight of Chicagoland’s transit system – which faces a projected $730 million budget shortfall. Advocates for the policy platform, which is broken up into three bills, describe much of it as a follow-up to the 2021 Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, a landmark energy policy that set emissions goals for the state and massively altered the state’s energy sector.
"This is about a transition to a cleaner electric grid — and cleaner heat for our homes — and more savings that go with those," said Sierra Club Illinois Director Jack Darin.
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