(Chicago Tribune, September 18, 2024)
In 2021, Illinois enacted a comprehensive clean energy law mandating the closure of all coal- and natural gas-fired power plants by 2045. As part of the Climate & Equitable Jobs Act, one of Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature legislative accomplishments, a large number of gas-fired facilities were to be shuttered by 2030.
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The Midwest’s largest newspaper says those warning of a crisis are right “and (IL Gov.) Pritzker and the green lobby were wrong.”
