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Sit In Continues Demanding a Moratorium on Fracking in Illinois

2013-05-24 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: What happens in Illinois, doesn`t stay in Illinois--especially when you`re dealing with the national ramifications of a combined fracking and coal mining rush unparalleled in recent memory. As a sit in movement continues at the office of Gov. Quinn in Springfield, IL, besieged southern Illinois residents who have been left out of backroom legislative negotiations over a controversial and admittedly flawed regulatory fracking bill are calling on the nation to contact Gov. Quinn and Lt. Gov. Madigan...

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Illinois State Legislature Approves Grid Modernization Plan

2013-05-23 16:44:00| Transmission & Distribution World

The Illinois House of Representatives yesterday voted overwhelmingly to overturn Governor Pat Quinn's veto of Senate Bill 9, legislation that accelerates the ability for Ameren Illinois to make improvements to the electric grid and create hundreds of new jobs. read more

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Steingraber Calls Out Illinois Fracking Regulations

2013-05-23 13:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Before environmental lobbyists and legislators push a hydraulic fracking bill through the Illinois legislature, they need to sit down with farmers in Clinton County and learn how well regulations defended their water, farms and cankered lives from the contamination of coal slurry in the Pearl Aquifer. Then they would fight to the end, like five southern Illinois county boards, for a moratorium on fracking--instead of a regulatory compromise that undercuts their efforts. That was the advice...

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City of Springfield, Illinois converts 24 vehicles to propane autogas

2013-05-23 11:30:14| Green Car Congress

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Illinois House overrides Quinn's veto of energy bill

2013-05-23 10:19:27| Energy - Topix.net

The Illinois House on Wednesday voted 71-41 to override Gov. Pat Quinn 's veto of a bill aimed at allowing Ameren Illinois and Commonwealth Edison to raise rates to pay for so-called Smart Grid technology.

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