Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore Illinois's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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GHG Targets + Governance

Just Transition + Equity

Industry

Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

Electricity

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

Buildings

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SB 2408: Climate and Equitable Jobs Act

Governor JB Pritzker signed landmark legislation into law that puts the state on a path toward 100% clean energy, invests in training a diverse workforce for the jobs of the future, institutes key ratepayer and residential customer protections, and prioritizes meaningful ethics and transparency reforms. Illinois is the first state in the Midwest to enact legislation to combat the climate crisis and build an economy for the future.

Illinois should increase the adoption of electric vehicles in the State to 1,000,000 by 2030.

Electric Vehicle Adoption Goal

transportation

HB 3413: Human Remains Protection Act

Amends the Human Skeletal Remains Protection Act. Changes references from "Indian" to "Native American" and "Historic Preservation Agency" to "Department of Natural Resources". Provides that the Director of Natural Resources, in cooperation with the Illinois State Museum, may create a cemetery on existing State lands for the reburial of repatriated Native American remains and materials. Provides that the cemetery shall not be used by the public and shall be protected by the State of Illinois. Provides that the Director of Natural Resources shall cooperate with the State Archaeologist and the Illinois State Museum to coordinate reinterment in the cemetery.

Illinois Commerce Commission Thermal Energy Network Report

Section 4-610, which was added to the Illinois Public Utilities Act by Illinois Public Act 103-0580 with an effective date of December 8, 2023 , directed the Illinois Commerce Commission (“Commission” or “ICC”) to convene a workshop process for the purpose of establishing an open, inclusive, and cooperative forum regarding thermal energy networks. The workshops were to be designed to achieve the following objectives:

1. Determine appropriate ownership, market, and rate structures for thermal energy networks and whether the provision of thermal energy services by thermal network energy providers is in the public interest;
2. Consider project designs that could maximize the value of existing State energy efficiency and weatherization programs and maximize federal funding opportunities to the extent practicable; 
3. Determine whether thermal energy network projects further climate justice and emissions reductions and benefits to utility customers and society at large, including but not limited to public health benefits in areas with disproportionate environmental burdens, job retention and creation, reliability, and increased affordability of renewable thermal energy options;
4. Consider approaches to thermal energy network projects that advance financial and technical approaches to equitable and affordable building electrification, including access to thermal energy network benefits by low and moderate income households; and 
5. Consider approaches to promote the training and transition of utility workers to work on thermal energy networks.

Illinois Public Act 103-0580 further required the Commission, no later than March 1, 2024, to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly describing the stakeholders, discussions, proposals, and areas of consensus and disagreement from the workshop process, and making recommendations regarding thermal energy
networks.

SB0009: Coal Ash Pollution Prevention Act

SB0009 “Coal Ash Pollution Prevention Act” requires that the Illinois Pollution Control Board specify a procedure to identify areas of environmental justice concern in relation to Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) surface impoundments and specify a method to prioritize closing CCR surface impoundments in EJ communities.

Beginning on January 1, 2030 all passenger vehicles, except for law enforcement vehicles, purchased or leased by a governmental unit must be either a manufactured zero-emission vehicle or a converted zero-emission vehicle.