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How Pay-to-Play Politics and an Uneasy Coalition of Nuclear and Renewable Energy Led to a Flawed Illinois Law Source: By Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News and Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times • Posted: Monday, May 24, 2021
State lawmakers are running out of time to fix 2016 clean energy legislation.
Pete Southerton (left) and Tom Bradshaw, of solar energy contractor Certasun, install solar panels on a Chicago home on May 17, 2021. Credit: Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times
This article is the result of a partnership between Inside Climate News and the Chicago Sun-Times.
How Pay-to-Play Politics and an Uneasy Coalition of Nuclear and Renewable Energy Led to a Flawed Illinois Law
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Time for me to drive? About the only thing that our new state tourism song has going for it is that it was inspired by a band from Illinois. Otherwise, JB would have us eschew public transportation, pile into carbon-spewing cars and roam the Land of Lincoln in search of fun. I m not sure how much we paid, if anything, for rights to the REO Speedwagon song, but it is too much. Replacing the word fly with drive isn t fooling anyone who recalls the 1979 original that appeared on the landmark album
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They expected directives from Sacramento headquarters to make preparations for any civil unrest that might arise over stay-at-home rules. But instead of an order to get the ground troops ready to help state and local authorities, the air branch of the Guard was told to place an F-15C fighter jet on an alert status for a possible domestic mission.
Four sources from the Guard with direct knowledge of the matter told
Los Angeles Times that the order didn’t spell out the mission. But given the aircraft’s limitations, they understood it to mean the plane would be deployed to terrify and disperse protesters by flying low over them at window-rattling speeds – with its afterburners streaming columns of flames.