Reporting by Jess Savage for Northern Public Radio:
Hundreds of advocates and organizers headed to Springfield this week for Environmental Lobby Day in Illinois.
Gathering in the rotunda of the State Capitol, speakers rallied for the passage of three bills currently moving through the legislature. They are all central environmental priorities for the state.
One speaker, 12-year-old Charlie Johnson from Glen Ellyn, said it is not right that Styrofoam containers are used once but remain in the environment for hundreds of years.
“It’s not fair for kids like me, kids all around Illinois, to inherit foam we had no hand in creating,” he said.