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Climate Change: Air Quality/Energy |
See also Water Resources
Recognizing Global Climate Change as an issue requiring swift action, the League of Women Voters of the United States voted to make it a national priority at its convention in Portland, OR in 2008. Two Climate Change Issues Specialists focusing on Water Resources and Air Quality/Energy joined the IL Issues Committee immediately afterward, and the issue was added to the Illinois Core Advocacy Issues list in 2010. Illinois Leagues take major action under the LWVUS Positions and the LWVIL Natural Resources position.
LWVUS Positions
Air Quality: Promote measures to reduce pollution from mobile and stationary sources.
Energy: Support environmentally sound policies that reduce energy growth rates, emphasize energy conservation and encourage the use of renewable sources.
LWVIL Position
Natural Resources: Promote an environment beneficial to life through the protection and wise management of natural resources in the public interest by recognizing the interrelationships of air quality, energy, land use, waste management and water resources.
Outlook - Update
Illinois continues to focus on reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions while, also preserving the state’s coal industry, manufacturing, transportation, and agriculture. At the federal level, changes in the composition of the Congress and the failure of the Senate to pass the cap and trade bill in 2010 mean that we shall have to look for more action at the state and local levels in the coming years to reduce emissions.
The Illinois RENEW series of bills passed several years ago to remove obstacles to green energy development and to promote green jobs have yielded 10,000 new jobs in the state since 2007. This number is expected to grow as the Illinois Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards continue to require the utilities to obtain power at from renewable sources such as wind and solar at ever increasing proportions to conventional sources.
Interested in working on this issue?
Please email issues@lwvil.org
and cite the Issue on the subject line.
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