City’s Chief of Policy Defends Proposed New ComEd Deal, Urges Swift City Council Passage – WTTW (Chicago)

“As you look across the country, there’s no other place that’s been able to secure as much funding as we have for the energy and equity project,” says Skyler Larrimore, chief of policy at the City of Chicago. “We’re drawing down benefits to residents who are at the front lines of the climate crisis to have access to good quality jobs in the clean energy sector and be able to lower their own bills at home.”
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Pat S.
3 years ago

More green babble. Do any of these ‘experts’ ever say anything directly?

Giddyap
3 years ago

The whole deal needs a forensic analysis to uncover the corruption

Pat S.
3 years ago

If the push to climate activism is so sincere, why isn’t the city/state requiring all politicians, streets and sanitation workers, cops, firefighters, paramedics, inspectors, etc. to do their jobs with EVs? Lead by example. Oh, reliability is an issue? No place to charge the EVs? EV fire trucks don’t exist? All issues that have to be addressed long before this green new deal is forced on citizens. And the ‘10,000 workers’ they want to train for jobs in the ‘clean energy industry?’ What clean energy industry? Politicians have been throwing words around that have little to no meaning; this is… Read more »

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