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The owner of a Bloomington-Normal recycling company, Midwest Fiber, says he’s amazed with how technology is changing his business – even if other economic forces can make things challenging.
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The new state budget includes less money for a popular electric-vehicle rebate program, potentially hindering efforts to reach a stated goal of 1 million EVs on the road by 2030.
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In the latest installment of WGLT's series Welcome Home, Ecology Action Center Executive Director Michael Brown explains how the nonprofit helped build a recycling program in Bloomington-Normal.
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The governor has appointed Memuna Lee from Bloomington-Normal to Illinois' new Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund board. That’s a nonprofit green bank providing loans and other assistance for renewable energy projects being done by minority-owned businesses or in low-income and disadvantaged communities.
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A company's plans to store liquified carbon dioxide in underground storage sites may involve a larger geographical swath of Central Illinois than previously thought.
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Jenna Smith is a nutrition and wellness educator with University of Illinois Extension based in Bloomington. She guides would-be food entrepreneurs and actually helped shape some recent changes to Illinois’ Home-to-Market law.
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Jonathan Alexander is the site manager of the Ellsworth-based Twin Groves wind farm, owned by EDP Renewables North America.
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While an increase of 1 to 2 degrees might not sound like a huge shift on its surface, it represents a big change in the number and scale of extreme weather conditions.
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Donors to the popular outdoor attraction outside of Funks Grove say they feel blindsided by recent changes. The nonprofit's board president says the decision was the only way to avoid shutting the center down altogether.
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The Carle BroMenn Resale Boutique in Normal has partnered with Illinois State University’s Fix-It Friday team to help restore clothes that will be put up for sale.
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A recent study that tied the use of gas stoves in homes to rates of childhood asthma — especially in Illinois — inadvertently brought gas stoves to the forefront of the culture wars.
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A bill awaiting Governor JB Pritzker's signature will set statewide standards for wind and solar farm siting.