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ELGIN, IL -- Today, the Sierra Club Illinois Youth Activist Team partnered with Occupy Elgin to demand that the Illinois General Assembly pass bold, equity-centered legislation that puts Illinois on a path to a 100% clean energy future. Illinois must enact policies that will create good-paying jobs, build opportunities in Black and Brown communities, reverse disinvestment, retrain displaced workers, and make the state a leader in renewable energy. Failing to meet the urgency of the climate crisis puts Illinois behind other Democratic states and the President’s goals.
ROCKTON, IL -- Three weeks after an explosion at Chemtool Inc., a chemical plant in northern Illinois, Rockton residents are speaking up about how the disaster could have been prevented and how mitigation efforts should be improved. On Thursday evening, residents provided testimony at the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) public listening session regarding the importance of improving the Agency’s national Risk Management Plan (RMP) rules. According to Jane Williams, Clean Air Chair with Sierra Club, Chemtool Inc.
Oak Park, Illinois is celebrating monarchs all year long. Three organizations, West Cook Wild Ones, Friends of the Oak Park Conservatory, and Interfaith Green Network and countless inviduals have joined in this effort to bring the Year of the Butterfly to Life.
Sierra Club volunteers gather outside the Capitol for a Rally for Clean Energy
Pollinator Week is a good time for reflecting on what needs to be done to protect monarch butterflies and pollinators. Nearly all conversations about monarchs these days touch upon the familiar battle cry for their recovery, "plant milkweed and nectar plants." Pollinators are in need of healthy, pesticide free habitat and there are many ways and places for getting it into the ground.
Today is the first day of a week-long celebration of pollinators. National Pollinator Week is an annual event celebrated internationally in support of pollinator health.
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