Chicago Mayor Slow to Act on Promises to Build Green Economy by Repurposing Polluted Industrial Sites EPA’s administrator praised Mayor Lori Lightfoot for rejecting a permit for a metal-shredding operation on the city’s Southeast Side. Activists pledge to keep pressing for reforms anyway. By Brett Chase
Sale of North Dakota’s Largest Coal Plant Is Almost Complete. Then Will Come the Hard Part By Dan Gearino
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
Race, Poverty, Farming and a Natural Gas Pipeline Converge In a Rural Illinois Township By Brett Chase
How Does a Utility Turn a Net-Zero Vision into Reality? That’s What They’re Arguing About in Minnesota By Dan Gearino
Urging Biden to Stop Line 3, Indigenous-Led Resistance Camps Ramp Up Efforts to Slow Construction By Kristoffer Tigue
Inside Clean Energy: Ohio’s Bribery Scandal is Bad. The State’s Lack of an Energy Plan May Be Worse By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: With Planned Closing of N.D. Coal Plant, Energy Transition Comes to Rural America By Dan Gearino