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Sierra Club Illinois publicly called on the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to deny an operating permit to Canada-based company EmberClear, who is developing the [Lincoln Land gas plant].

Sierra Club and Prairie Rivers Network have sent a letter noting their intent to sue over releases of toxic PFAs as part of a firefighting effort at the troubled Sugar Camp mine in downstate Illinois.

As part of a 280-acre expansion of the Chicago Rockford International Airport, the [Bell Bowl] prairie… could be bulldozed, despite concerns that only .01% of Illinois’ natural prairie remains.

The Sierra Club started as a hiking organization, but has expanded its outreach to include advocating for the environment.

Illinois communities that have long depended on coal industry jobs won’t be left empty-handed under the state’s massive new clean energy law.

For months, Sierra Club Illinois, Clean Power Lake County, Climate Reality Project, and several other environmental organizations urged Pace to prioritize electrifying their transportation fleet.

Illinois became the first Midwest state to adopt a law that sets a roadmap to ban coal in the state, eliminate other fossil-fuel sources of electricity and provide only "clean energy," including nuclear.

“This historic bill represents a nation-leading plan to set Illinois on course to 100% clean energy, heeds the call of science for bold action on climate change, and centers equity and environmental justice every step of the way,” said Jack Darin.

Several organizations came together Tuesday to call for accountability over the coal ash cloud that rose over City Water, Light and Power (CWLP).

The ash cloud erupted at the same time the General Assembly was discussing a clean energy bill that would close the Dallman power plant sooner rather than later.