Illinois clean energy transition is still far away

ALTON — It’s been nearly a year since Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the state’s landmark clean energy legislation into law, yet there hasn’t been much obvious progress toward some of its ambitious proposals.The law aims to both zero out carbon emissions by 2050 and ensure that areas overburdened by past pollution — predominantly low-income and Black and brown communities — fully participate and benefit from the growing green economy.But achieving this vision is more complicated in practice, which was on display when dozens of people gathered at Lewis and Clark Community College last week to discuss a local workforce development hub, just one of the key provisions laid out in the law.“There’s still more work to be done,” said Hilary Scott-Ogunrinde, executive secretary of Macedonia Development Corp. in East St. Louis….

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