Illinois Put a Stop to Local Governments’ Ability to Kill Solar and Wind Projects. Will Other Midwestern States Follow? The state recently joined New York and California in passing such laws, eliciting both support and pushback. By Dan Gearino, Aydali Campa
A 3M Plant in Illinois Was The Country’s Worst Emitter of a Climate-Killing ‘Immortal’ Chemical in 2021 By Phil McKenna
As Flooding Increases, Chicago Looks To Make Basement Housing Safer By Siri Chilukuri, Borderless Magazine
A New Push Is on in Chicago to Connect Urban Farmers With Institutional Buyers Like Schools and Hospitals By Aydali Campa
Chicago Institutions Just Got $25 Million to Study Local Effects of Climate Change. Here’s How They Plan to Use It By Aydali Campa
‘Last Gasp for Coal’ Saw Illinois Plants Crank up Emission-Spewing Production Last Year By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino
Chicago Mayor Slow to Act on Promises to Build Green Economy by Repurposing Polluted Industrial Sites By Brett Chase
Illinois Now Boasts the ‘Most Equitable’ Climate Law in America. So What Will That Mean? By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: In Illinois, an Energy Bill Passes That Illustrates the Battle Lines of the Broader Energy Debate By Dan Gearino
Illinois Solar Companies Say They Are ‘Held Hostage’ by Statehouse Gridlock By Dan Gearino, Brett Chase
Despite Capitol Hill Enthusiasm for Planting Crops to Store Carbon, Few Farmers are Doing It, Report Finds By Georgina Gustin
As Illinois Strains to Pass a Major Clean Energy Law, a Big Coal Plant Stands in the Way By Dan Gearino, Brett Chase
How Pay-to-Play Politics and an Uneasy Coalition of Nuclear and Renewable Energy Led to a Flawed Illinois Law By Dan Gearino, Brett Chase