By WAND
“Jennifer Walling, Executive Director for the Illinois Environmental Council, said, ‘Dynegy is a big corporation that owns several coal plants in Illinois. They’ve just been bought by a Texas corporation called Vistras, and they want to get a bail out. That is not only bad for the environment, because polluting coal plants open, but it also is bad for rate payers, because it will be a rate increase for people in the Ameren territory… for people all across central and southern Illinois.’”
Illinois’ push to train workers for solar industry jobs is paying off
September 12, 2025
A state-funded hub for clean energy workforce development is creating employment and business opportunities in the surrounding community. Advocates applauded the law’s impact at a celebration