CHICAGO – Peoples Gas made $208 million in profit in 2022, breaking its earnings record for the sixth consecutive year, according to a year-end financial report published Thursday. The report comes days after more than 100 people gathered outside Peoples Gas headquarters to call on regulators to reject the Chicago gas utility’s proposed $402 million rate hike, the […]
Read MoreICJC launches full-page newspaper ads across Central and Southwestern Illinois decrying Ameren’s excessive profit grab and record rate-hike request
With Central and Southern Illinois already besieged by high energy bills, the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition (ICJC) announced Thursday the placement of full-page newspaper ads to alert Ameren Illinois customers about the company’s record rate-hike requests and excessive profit grab. “We are rallying Ameren customers to speak out against this excessive profit grab that will drive our energy bills […]
Read MoreICJC Statement on Prairie Research Institute’s Carbon Capture Report
CHAMPAIGN, IL – Last week, the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign publicly released “Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage in Illinois,” a report requested by the Illinois General Assembly through Public Act 102-0341. The report and Policy Supplement includes a preliminary assessment for Illinois policy makers on the implications, opportunities, and challenges of […]
Read MoreAdvocates Urge Mayor, City Council to Propose Cheaper, Cleaner Way to Heat Homes
As heating affordability crisis, children’s health concerns, and climate change escalate, urgency grows to pass healthy buildings ordinance for new construction in Chicago Chicago, IL – Amid staggeringly high gas bills and a record-breaking rate-hike request from Peoples Gas, a group of consumer, health and environmental advocates urged Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago City […]
Read MoreStatement from the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition on Siting Bill
“The Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition applauds the passage of House Bill 4412, which standardizes and clarifies the process of siting clean energy projects like utility-scale wind and solar. To lower electric bills, create good paying jobs, make our air healthier to breathe and protect the planet from climate change, Illinois must build more clean energy capacity […]
Read MoreInaugural Clean Energy Champion Awards Honor Leading Organizations Using Illinois’ Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) to Create Clean Jobs for All
CHICAGO – On Tuesday, the inaugural Illinois Clean Energy Champion Awards celebrated job creation by private companies, nonprofit organizations and governmental units from across Illinois that have seized the chance to make Illinois a national leader in clean energy. The event is a joint project of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and the Illinois Clean […]
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