Ecology Action Center

Ecology Action Center in Normal is bringing back a program to McLean County that offers residents solar panel installation below market cost. The program also available to DeWitt County residents is a group buy program called the Grow Solar Initiative.

Canadian wildfire smoke has caused unhealthy air quality in Bloomington-Normal. The Ecology Action Center in Normal is recommending people stay indoors whenever possible.

The Town of Normal extended its moratorium on short-term rental properties by one month. The move was made during Monday’s town council meeting, the first for newly sworn-in council member Rory Roberge.

The Ecology Action Center in Normal urges Bloomington-Normal residents to stay in the municipal electric aggregation program even with hefty rate increases coming this summer.

Ecology Action Center has organized two service days this Earth Month cleaning up plastic waste in McLean County. The first is this Saturday at ISU Farm in Lexington.

The Ecology Action Center's executive director received a letter from the EPA notifying him of the grant cancellation — with no clear reason why.

A dedicated permanent hazardous household waste collection facility in McLean County would encourage more people to properly dispose of dangerous materials. That’s one of the key takeaways from a feasibility study presented this week to a county board committee.

Although the Trump Administration rescinded a memo announcing a freeze on federal allocations Wednesday, the head of the nonprofit Ecology Action Center in Normal says its grant funding is still jeopardized by an earlier executive order.

Titled BN-CARE, the project places air quality sensors in three Twin City environmental justice areas, so-named for higher risk of residents developing cardiopulmonary disease.

The source of the paint spill was a business along Gill Street, according to a statement from the City of Bloomington. The business was not identified.