What’s in a clean energy bill?
Environment Illinois's take on the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act
Paloma
Paez-Coombe
Associate, Environment Illinois
Started on staff: 2019
B.A., Haverford College
Paloma lives in Chicago, where she loves to cook, garden, and explore nearby forest preserves.
Posts by Paloma Paez-Coombe
Statement: Chicago passes industry’s plastic ordinance over environmental opposition
New report outlines key ways to reconnect nature through wildlife corridors
“For too long a labyrinth of roads, fences and sprawl has penned animals into smaller and smaller habitats,” said Wendy Wendlandt, president of Environment America Research & Policy Center. “The key now is to connect these small habitat ‘islands’ through corridors. Doing so can give wildlife the space they need to hunt, mate and migrate.”
Statement: Senate Energy legislation presents windfall for ComEd, extends failed energy policies
The Illinois Senate on Tuesday passed omnibus energy legislation that could provide utility companies with windfall profits at customer expense. The legislation, Senate Bill 18, extends formula rate policies that guarantee utility profits, provides ComEd parent company Exelon Corporation with a $694 million nuclear bailout, and fails to adequately address pollution from the state’s dirtiest power plants. At the same time, the bill enacts important policies to advance Illinois’ clean energy future.
New report: Illinois and nation are on the verge of a renewable future
Both Illinois and the nation have the capacity to build an energy system around clean, renewable resources, according to a new report released on Thursday by Environment Illinois Research & Education Center. The study, We Have the Power: Reaching America's potential for clean, renewable energy, comes as an energy bill to continue funding Illinois’ renewable energy programs is expected to pass the Illinois legislature in the coming weeks.
