🚨NEW REPORT JUST DROPPED "IL's nuclear plants are critical to meeting climate & economic objectives in the state, including the ambitious goal some have proposed of a 100% carbon-free power sector by 2030" 🧵 prn.to/2RoyJvX

Key findings: 1. Keeping IL's existing NPPs open through 2050 avoids 25 M metric tons of life-cycle CO2 emissions— equivalent to taking 5.4 million cars off the road

2. Without existing nuclear power, reaching zero carbon would require solar deployments to displace 10,000km2 of critical Illinois farmland, representing nearly 15% of the nation's corn and 14% of its soybean production

3. Deploying new advanced nuclear generation is the least expensive way to allow IL farmland to remain farmland while reaching zero-carbon by 2030

4. Without the benefit of the reliable baseload provide by nuclear energy, extraordinary, possibly infeasible, grid-scale battery storage capacity is required to meet any zero-carbon target with significant renewable penetration

"Not only did Illinois’ nuclear plants generate enough clean energy to power 11.1 million homes (almost twice the amount in the state) in 2019, but it also kept 62 million metric tons of carbon emissions from being released into the air!" nuclearmatters.com/university_of_…

"There is no disputing that IL' legislators must act to save the >1,500 full-time positions & 2,000+ supplemental jobs tied to the Dresden & Byron NPPs – supporting workers in rural communities that cannot afford to lose these family-supporting union jobs" - IBEW President

Read the full report here⬇️ ws.engr.illinois.edu/sitemanager/ge…

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Check on your Cub fan friends…we are not alright. They did our man dirty. 🙁

Absolutely SHOCKED new guidance showed up in the ISBE site late on a Friday. isbe.net/Documents/ISBE…

From the Guardian? theguardian.com/environment/20…

Climate Jobs Illinois issued the following statement regarding the proposed amendment on SB 2408: bit.ly/3EbX3ou

🚨BREAKING: "We need the Illinois House to approve SB2408 today so that the future can begin now.” Read our full statement of support: sierraclub.org/illinois/blog/…

Climate Deal!!!! Let’s gooooooo

🚨 BREAKING: The Illinois House just passed the nation's most equitable climate legislation in the nation! The Senate will reconvene in the coming days, tell your Senator to vote YES for a #FossilFreeIL! Read our full statement: sierraclub.org/illinois/blog/…

Baker Bros. headlock in WIN Magazine! No need to keep secrets when it can't be stopped 😉