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| The United States, long considered a laggard in addressing global warming, is poised to achieve large reductions in global warming pollution thanks to clean energy policies adopted over the past decade by state governments, according to a new report by the Environment America Research & Policy Center. Illinois ranks 3rd among all states in expected emission reductions. | |
| The Baldwin Energy Complex coal-fired power plant in Baldwin is the dirtiest power plant in Illinois based on carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution, ranking it as the 30th dirtiest plant in the country for 2007, according to a new analysis of government data released today by Environment Illinois. The new report, “America's Biggest Polluters: Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Plants in 2007,” looks at carbon dioxide emissions from power plants across the country using 2007 data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. | |
| Far from a solution to global warming, nuclear power will actually set America back in the race to reduce pollution, according to a new report by Environment Illinois. Nuclear power is too slow and too expensive to make enough of a difference in the next two decades. Moreover, nuclear power is not necessary to provide clean, carbon-free electricity for the long haul. | |
| Environment Illinois today released “The Clean Energy Future Starts Here: Understanding the American Clean Energy and Security Act,” an analysis that puts the energy bill passed by the U.S. House in June in the perspective of its role in moving America toward clean energy, green jobs, and reduced global warming emissions. The analysis comes as Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer and Foreign Relations Committee Chair John Kerry plan to release their energy bill on Wednesday, which will be the starting point for the Senate debate and is expected to follow the framework of the House bill. | |
| A new national report finds that Illinois households would save an average of $252 per year and 30,400 sustainable jobs would be created in the state over the next ten years if Congress acts now to include strong energy efficiency improvements in energy and climate legislation. | |
| Statement of Environment Illinois Program Director, Max Muller: ""Today, Congress took an historic step, toward a new clean energy economy and a healthy future by passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act . . . | |
| Global warming could cost corn growers in Illinois $243 million a year, according to a new report by Environment Illinois. Illinois ranks second in the nation for projected corn losses due to global warming. | |
| Illinois's future holds more extreme heat waves, lower Lake Michigan water levels, extreme floods, and reduced agricultural yields unless global warming pollution is cut dramatically and rapidly. These conclusions are contained in a report issued today by 13 federal government science agencies in the most definitive scientific assessment to date of global warming’s impacts on the United States. | |
| Environment Illinois applauded U.S. Representatives Bobby Rush and Jan Schakowsky today for voting today to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) through the House Energy & Commerce Committee. | |
| President Obama will announce today that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation will establish a uniform federal standard to reduce global warming pollution from cars and light trucks and improve vehicle efficiency. | |