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URBANA, Ill. – According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Illinois contains about 15% recoverable coal reserves and is the nation’s second-largest coal producer. Five of the 11 remaining Illinois coal plants are destined for closure in the coming years, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Outgoing secretary of state adds chapters to her public life
Bev Clarno spent years as a legislator, federal appointee and county commissioner.
When Bev Clarno published her memoir four years ago, she figured her public life was long over.
She was one of just two people and the only woman to lead Republicans in both chambers of the Oregon Legislature. She was a presidential appointee to a federal agency and served one year as a Deschutes County commissioner, which allowed her to stay close to home near Redmond.
Entering her 80s, she had had four children, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren and she intended her memoir, From Pigs to Politics, to tell her story and to inspire them.