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In the days following the end of the session, Illinois State Senator Dave Koehler of Peoria looked back at the tense spring session.
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The Illinois House on Tuesday voted to ban carbon capture near the Mahomet Aquifer in a 91-19 vote. It's already passed the Senate and now goes to the governor.
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A bill that bans carbon sequestration over, under or through portions of the Mahomet Aquifer passed out of the Illinois General Assembly on Tuesday.
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State senators voted unanimously, 55-0, this week to ban carbon sequestration near the Mahomet Aquifer. That's the sole source of water for nearly 1 million people in the region, including much of McLean County.
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After months of community engagement, the Illinois House and Senate are endorsing a bill that would ban carbon sequestration near the Mahomet Aquifer.
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An effort is underway in the Illinois legislature to protect water supplies from a new climate technology that still faces many questions about its safety.
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An Illinois Senate committee hit pause on a bill to ban carbon sequestration injections near aquifers after more than an hour of debate Wednesday.
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The Bloomington City Council has unanimously approved an amendment to city code extending the definition of “loud and raucous noise” to apply to public property.
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The McLean County Board unanimously passed a resolution in support of protecting the Mahomet Aquifer, a source of drinking water for many communities in Central Illinois.
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So-called "carbon sequestration" takes carbon dioxide produced by industrial processes like ethanol plants, compresses it to a liquid form, pipes it across the Midwest, and injects it deep under bedrock layers in places like Decatur, and potentially McLean County.