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An industrial-scale battery storage facility at G&W Electric in Bolingbrook, which was installed in 2024.
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Capitol News Illinois
State News
‘Huge step forward’: Illinois inches closer on battery storage, solar goals
Maggie Dougherty
Illinois regulators conducted the first battery storage procurement event required by energy legislation that became law this year.
Logging equipment and a pile of felled trees sits less than a mile from the Burke Branch area of the Shawnee, which stands to lose federal protections from new road construction and timber harvesting under a proposal from the Trump administration.
Kate McCann
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Capitol News Illinois
State News
The Trump administration wants to bolster U.S. timber production. Environmentalists say its rule change could wreak environmental havoc.
Kate McCann
Zahrah Hill, a foreman and plumber who works at construction sites, struggled with being able to find somewhere to express milk while on the job shortly after the birth of her son. But a new state law that takes effect in January will require employers in the construction industry to make job-site site accommodations for employees who menstruate and lactate, making Illinois only the second state with such a mandate.
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
State News
Construction sites will be required to be more welcoming to women under a new Illinois law
Isabela Nieto
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