To: The Illinois State House, The Illinois State Senate, and Governor J.B. Pritzker
Springfield - Fix our Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Now!
To Gov. Quinn and Illinois lawmakers,
Please move forward in fixing the Renewable (Energy) Portfolio Standard, (RPS), now!
Reports are that the fix to the RPS, SB103/HB2864, has been stalled in Springfield by Exelon, (owner of the nuclear power plants), and some Alternative Retail Electric Suppliers (ARES).
This "fix" would allow for a no-cost, (to ratepayers), kick start to the broken Renewable (Energy) Portfolio Standard in IL. It would drive the funding for new renewable energy production in our state and create thousands of new green jobs.
Do not leave town without kick starting our renewable energy renaissance and our green jobs! We can not wait for some "deal" to made - we need to build renewable energy as fast as we can to mitigate climate change and we want those green jobs!
ACT NOW for your Constituents, for Humanity and for the Planet.
For more information go to: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140515/NEWS11/140519854/clean-energy-law-revamp-is-dead
Why is this important?
We need renewable energy to be built as fast as it can be built in IL, and throughout the US, to mitigate climate change!
We need new green jobs to bolster our economy!
Here in IL our Renewable (Energy) Portfolio Standard, (RPS), is broken and Springfield is planning to slide out for the summer without fixing it - SB103, HB2864 are the vehicles for that fix. Corporations are standing in the way, and once again Springfield is bowing to the corporate influence. We can not let them, climate change is on the agenda now, not whenever they get around to it, but now!
More info at Frack Free Illinois on FB and www.ilikecleanenergy.org