We’re hiring interns! 🔍 Our team is looking for curious, hard-working individuals for the following legislative session roles: ⚡️ Session Legislative Intern 🏛️ Lobby Day Intern ‼️ The deadlines to apply are 3/13 and 3/16 ❇️ For more information and how to apply, visit 🔗: ilenviro.org/we-are-hirin...

For #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re celebrating #ColorOfWater member Cate Caldwell, Senior Policy Manager at @ilenviro.bsky.social. See Cate’s profile here: colorofwater.waterhub.org/experts/cate... 🌊 Find more water experts of color here: colorofwater.info

🧾 Yeah, it’s an election year — and we have the receipts. Do you know how your U.S. Congress members voted on key environmental policy in the past year?

✴️ After many months of research, convenings, public town hall meetings, priority-setting, and bill drafting, we have proposed policy solutions to many critical environmental issues in our 2026 legislative agenda. Our top priorities?

New resource unlocked 🔓 Take a peek at our 2026 Environmental Legislative Agenda: ilenviro.org/illinois-202...

‼️ A new report from the Northwestern Environmental Advocacy Center and ClientEarth USA has identified a major, but little-known crisis plaguing Illinois: a potential $1 billion oil well cleanup problem.

Is Illinois funding the environment? Gov. Pritzker released his FY27 budget proposal. Our team took a close look at what it means for climate and conservation in Illinois. Take a look at our analysis to find out which priorities made the cut: ilenviro.org/the-environm...

🍂 Across Illinois, trees, flowers, and native plants are showing damage from herbicide drift — a well-documented phenomenon where weedkillers travel far beyond where they’re sprayed.

Big Tech’s development shouldn’t come at your expense. The POWER Act will: ✔ Make data centers bring their own new clean energy ✔ They pay for their own grid upgrades ✔ Communities get pollution protections ⚡ Learn more: ilenviro.org/data-centers... @ilenviro.bsky.social

💐 Want to make your love for Illinois’ environment official? 💝 Become an IEC member today: give.ilenviro.org/a/2026member... ✨

🛢️ Oil companies drilled without restraint. Now, taxpayers may foot the cleanup bill. Illinois was once a titan of American oil production, with derricks crowding the horizon. Today, that legacy lingers in rusted pipes, contaminated soil, and a mounting $160 million cleanup bill.

⚠️ ICYMI: The legal backbone of U.S. EPA climate protections is under attack. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding established, based on overwhelming scientific evidence, that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health and welfare.

We can let data centers drive up costs, strain our water supplies, and threaten our clean energy goals, or we can set fair rules that welcome growth while protecting consumers and communities. ⚠️ Take action: urge your legislators to support the POWER Act here: act.ilenviro.org/a/poweract

💰 Energy affordability isn't an abstract issue. It's real life for millions of Illinoisans who are working hard and still falling behind. In fact, one of the biggest drivers of rising electricity costs has little to do with your energy use – and everything to do with Big Tech and their data centers.

💰 Energy affordability isn't an abstract issue. It's real life for millions of Illinoisans who are working hard and still falling behind. In fact, one of the biggest drivers of rising electricity costs has little to do with your energy use – and everything to do with Big Tech and their data centers.

💰 Energy affordability isn't an abstract issue. It's real life for millions of Illinoisans who are working hard and still falling behind. In fact, one of the biggest drivers of rising electricity costs has little to do with your energy use and everything to do with Big Tech and their data centers.

Nearly a year after a massive asphalt spill in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, cleanup work is still not finished. The spill released toxic, tar-like material containing carcinogens and heavy metals that can harm wildlife and pollute water.

The Illinois State Legislature is back in session, which means we’re back in Springfield crafting and advocating for nation-leading environmental policies. Hear all about this year’s big environmental bills from the experts on the ground! (🧵 1/2) 🗓️ Tuesday, February 17 ⏰ 12:00-1:00 PM 📍 Zoom webinar

Illinois just became the first state in the country to recognize rewilding as an official conservation strategy — a massive step for wetlands and climate resilience! Rewilding recognizes that healthy ecosystems are necessary infrastructure that protect homes, drinking water, farms, and wildlife. 🧵

🌡️ Our (not-so-hot) take: rewilding is now Illinois law and protecting wetlands should be next! Illinois has taken a historic step by becoming the first state in the nation to formally recognize rewilding as a conservation strategy, a move that comes at a critical moment for our wetlands. Here’s why:

🌡️ Our (not-so-hot) take: rewilding is now Illinois law and protecting wetlands should be next! Illinois has taken a historic step by becoming the first state in the nation to formally recognize rewilding as a conservation strategy, a move that comes at a critical moment for our wetlands. Here’s why:

Illinois just became the first state in the country to recognize rewilding as an official conservation strategy — a massive step for wetlands and climate resilience! Rewilding recognizes that healthy ecosystems are necessary infrastructure that protect homes, drinking water, farms, and wildlife. 🧵

The Illinois State Legislature is back in session, which means we’re back in Springfield crafting and advocating for nation-leading environmental policies. Hear all about this year’s big environmental bills from the experts on the ground! (🧵 1/2) 🗓️ Tuesday, February 17 ⏰ 12:00-1:00 PM 📍 Zoom webinar

Nearly a year after a massive asphalt spill in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, cleanup work is still not finished. The spill released toxic, tar-like material containing carcinogens and heavy metals that can harm wildlife and pollute water.

These are just some highlights from the Climate Safe Pensions Illinois (CSPI) Coalition's talk about the case for Fossil Fuel Divestment in Illinois. Thank you to @ilenviro.bsky.social for hosting (1/2)

🌈 Join us for HamBINGO Drag Queen Bingo supporting IEC! 🗓️ Wednesday 18 Feb ⏰ 7pm 📍 Hamburger Mary’s: 1055 W Bryn Mawr Ave Ste. E Chicago 💌 Donation of $20 to play bingo. Prizes vary from week to week. Reserve your table starting at 6pm @ chicago.hamburgermarys.com❣️ Bring all your squirrel friends 🐿️

🪷 Birds, frogs, turtles and other wildlife rely on our wetlands for habitat, but most of our wetlands (72%) lack any protection from degradation or destruction 🧵 (1/2)

Did you know food scrap diversion and methane emission reduction from landfills go hand in hand? On February 2 at 11:00 AM, you can learn about this relationship from the experts, including Sen. Adriane Johnson. We have an opportunity to reduce climate pollution and food waste in our communities.

We are back with one of our most popular annual resources: our Chicago City Budget Analysis! This one was a bit of a nail-biter 😬 Unclear for months how the Mayor and City Council's many proposals would play out, most of the Mayor’s priorities stayed intact, including our environmental priorities.

⚠️ ICYMI: The Trump administration is illegally accelerating commercial logging in Illinois’ only national forest. This rushed approach threatens wildlife, undermines climate protections, and sets a dangerous precedent for public lands nationwide 🪵

Illinois marked a major step forward for clean, affordable, and reliable energy with Governor JB Pritzker’s signing of the CRGA Act a landmark achievement made possible by the leadership of legislators and the broad coalition of labor, environmental advocates, and community voices behind it 💚

These new environmental laws went into effect on January 1st: 🧴 Phasing out mini single-use plastic toiletry bottles in hotels 🚰 Banning carbon sequestration projects in and around federally designated sole-source aquifers 🌸 Formally authorizing rewilding as a state strategy

Just discovered that if you write “-ai” at the end of a google search, it turns off the automatic Google AI nonsense in the search results. Save water! Save energy! Search away! 💖

CRGA is law! 🎉 Governor Pritzker *just* signed the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability (CRGA) Act into law, making Illinois the state with the STRONGEST response yet to the rollback of federal climate protections. 🧵 (1/4) ⚡️ Take action below!

CRGA is law! 🎉 Governor Pritzker *just* signed the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability (CRGA) Act into law, making Illinois the state with the STRONGEST response yet to the rollback of federal climate protections. 🧵 (1/4) ⚡️ Take action below!

I mean, Illinois has just been *killing* it, almost completely outside of the NY/CA media spotlight.

🚨New @lcv.org report shows that Illinois was a national leader in clean energy this year – and that our state’s investments in wind and solar are helping consumers with skyrocketing utility bills! I’ve been proud to partner with @ilenviro.bsky.social to push for this progress.

IEC, Chicago Environmental Justice Network & more are rallying to celebrate the introduction of the Hazel M. Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance in Chicago. The policy addresses the environmental & health burdens placed on frontline communities. Watch live➡️ facebook.com/ilenviro/live_videos

Join us & the IL Clean Jobs Coalition on May 21st in Springfield for #ClimateActionLobbyDay. Help us fight for our future. 📢 We'll be rallying support for clean air, energy affordability, and a transformed transit system in Illinois. #ElectrifyIL ❤️‍🔥 See you there! RSVP: bit.ly/ClimateActio...

Today's first endorsement announcement is from @ilenviro.bsky.social! The IL Environmental Council works to build power for people and the environtment, advancing equitable public policies to ensure a healthy environment across Illinois. We're so happy to have them as part of our endorsement team!

Incredible work, @jenwalling.bsky.social!

Next we prepped for SB1531, the foam foodware ban with Senator Laura Fine @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social @alliancegreatlakes.bsky.social @ilenviro.bsky.social

It’s been a very big morning so far in Springfield. At 8AM @gonggershowitz.bsky.social moved HB1600 requiring third party delivery apps to only provide utensils if you ask. @ilenviro.bsky.social @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social @alliancegreatlakes.bsky.social

IEC to discuss federal cuts to agriculture programs at a roundtable with Gov. Pritzker, Rep. Nikki Budzinski, environmental leaders, & farmers who saw climate-smart agriculture funding cut off. Tune in today at 1:30 PM CST. ➡️ www.illinois.gov/about/live-v...

Today, take action in solidarity with IL farmers & soil health advocates who are at Soil Health Advocacy Day! Tell your legislators to support a handful of bills that will help make our food system more resilient, sustainable, and equitable. ➡️ act.ilenviro.org/a/soil-healt...

HAPPENING NOW: IL Clean Jobs Coalition & Rep. Ann Williams are introducing the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act! This legislation addresses urgent challenges facing our electric grid while prioritizing affordability for consumers & businesses. Tune in: www.facebook.com/ILCleanJobs/...

🌿IL Democrats in Congress continue to champion our environment, as shown in the 2024 LCV Scorecard! Despite challenges, they fought for clean energy & environmental protection. 📑 Read @lcv.org's full report at scorecard.lcv.org to see how your U.S. representatives scored!

Learn how the Clean Air Act gives states authority to regulate vehicle emissions when federal standards don't go far enough, current state programs, and the role of federal oversight in enforcing these standards. 🎟️ act.ilenviro.org/a/clean-tran...

You have the power! Tell your legislators to co-sponsor and vote "YES" on the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act. They need to know that Illinoisans believe in a strengthened power grid, consumer protections, and climate action. Take Action: act.ilenviro.org/a/crga2025

IEC will be watching for a budget that invests in key environmental priorities. We must protect our communities from pollution, and move our state in the right direction to meet our conservation and climate goals. ➡️ Watch here at 12 PM CT: www.illinois.gov/about/live-v...