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Pritzker signs major energy reform bill amid projected shortages
Article Summary The Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act incentivizes battery storage among other measures aimed at bolstering grid reliability. It creates “virtual power plants” aimed at harvesting wind and solar energy from homes and businesses to help fuel the grid. Regulators will also have more authority to set long-term plans for managing energy supply...
Gov. JB Pritzker signs sweeping Illinois energy law boosting batteries and renewables that
Gov. JB Pritzker stands while people applaud after he signed the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act at Joliet Junior College on Jan. 8, 2026. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) By Jeremy Gorner | jgorner@chicagotribune.com | Chicago Tribune PUBLISHED: January 8, 2026 at 6:40 PM CST Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday...
Outcry Builds Over Trump’s Withdrawal From International, Climate Treaties
It landed as one fell swoop after a year of relentless cuts to U.S. climate programs, personnel and policy. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he would withdraw the United States from more than 60 international organizations and treaties, including the framework agreement for addressing climate change that a Republican administration helped to craft 33 years...




