URGENT: Support a Comprehensive Climate and Equitable Jobs Bill in Illinois!
- On Sept. 1, the Illinois Senate passed an energy bill, SB18 that would put the state on a path to 100% carbon-free power by 2050.
- However, Gov. J.B. Pritzker does not support this bill mainly due to the issue of the Prairie State coal plant, the largest source of industrial carbon pollution in Illinois and one of the largest in the country. The bill does not require the plant to reduce its emission before 2045.
- The SB18 is now at the Illinois House and scheduled for a hearing on Thursday, Sept. 9.
- On Sept. 3, member of the House, Rep. Ann Williams filed the SB1751, House Amendment 1 to improve SB18 by requiring a 45% reduction in carbon emissions for the coal plant by 2035. This amendment is supported by the Governor and Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition.
- If the House passes a bill with the amendment, it will have to go back to the Senate for consideration. Let’s urge our legislators to pass the comprehensive clean energy bill to be signed into a law by the Governor.
Sign one of the petitions below or call your representatives:
To call your representatives, use one of the petitions above as the talking point. For example, this one from Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition:
As a constituent, I’m urging you to support the comprehensive climate and equitable jobs bill SB1751, House Amendment 1.
In keeping with climate science, this bill not only puts Illinois on a path to a 100% clean energy future, but also achieves meaningful emissions reductions in the near term, including from our state’s largest polluter and the 7th worst polluter in the nation, the Prairie State coal plant.
It creates good-paying jobs and wealth for working families in every part of Illinois, especially Black and Brown communities, which are often the first to suffer negative consequences of pollution but the last to reap the health and economic benefits of a clean energy future.
And, it holds utilities accountable and ends the automatic, formula rate hikes that have burdened consumers for too long.
Inaction isn’t an option. Please help get this bill across the finish line.
