Ways You Can Help Now!

By Joyce Blumenshine

The Illinois State Legislature will meet on various days beginning October 14th for the 2025 Fall Veto Session.  Find your State Representative and Senator to call their office or send them a comment on our priority bills.

These priority bills may be coming up and your calls or emails in support of the following are greatly needed:

• The Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act (Senate Bill 2473/House Bill 3779)
  This legislation will assist us all by connecting less expensive, reliable clean energy to Illinois’ electric grid; removing barriers to clean energy deployment; and requiring transparency and public participation from municipal utilities and rural electric cooperatives.
• The Transportation Choices Act (SB1680/HB2629) and the nation-leading Clean and Equitable Transportation Act (SB2486/HB3778)
  A package of comprehensive transportation and jobs bills from the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition. These bills work together to direct state transportation investments to reduce emissions and increase affordable options (the Transportation Choices Act), implement long overdue transit governance and funding reforms for Northeast Illinois with statewide benefits (the Metropolitan Mobility Authority Act), and increase the availability and reliability of zero emissions vehicles and charging infrastructure (the Zero-Emission Vehicle Act).
• Farewell to Foam (SB 1531)
  Phases out single-use foam food ware so our state does its part in reducing the 5.6 billion pieces of plastic foam used each year. Foam is very difficult to recycle and turns into toxic environmental microplastic particles. 

Your help is needed so that Illinois can continue taking important steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and face climate change. With federal roll-backs in clean energy funding support and cancellations of wind and solar projects on public lands, we here in Illinois must tack action for clean energy now!