Web 57DHYAFZZFLMQ November 5 2026 Pritzker aligns with RAWSEP lowering PM 2 point 5 air pollution
Pritzker aligns with RAWSEP lowering PM 2 point 5 air pollution
Not in the direct way that RAWSEP would like to end air pollution
Which ideally would stop indoor residential wood burning pollution
By tracing each air pollution event to its source with the solution
Of shutting down each indoor residential wood burner one by one
If necessary. Air pollution from wood burning includes primarily
PM Two point Five but also includes the greenhouse gas CO2.
In that way the Pritzker Plan diverges from RAWSEP aims by
Not directly addressing PM Two point Five from wood burning.
But the Pritzker Seventy Five page plan by implementation
On January Third Two Thousand Twenty Seven to address problems
Indirectly provides carrots to those few indigent indoor residential wood burners,
by L HEAP meant for the indigent, they can afford to pay home heating bills!
Although in many localities indoor residential wood burning is done
By the wealthy as an absurd way to feed some recent aesthetic fashion.
Remember that although wood is usually designated a renewable
Burning wood pollutes the air, unlike wind and solar, clean renewables.
The Governor Pritzker Plan presents these solutions for the poor of Illinois:
Especially interesting to RAWSEP, restoring rooftop solar tax credits!
Identifying the Current Administration House Resolution One as a culprit
In ending programs that must be restored to prevent harmful air pollution.
Reauthorize the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant program
Four Hundred Fifty Million Dollars from a Federal Program
One-time for Illinois freight electrification and clean buildings.
Amend the Clean Air Act to expressly authorize the EPA back to regulating
greenhouse gases to give regulatory certainty to states and industry.
Restore the clean energy, home efficiency, and rooftop solar tax credits!
In Illinois, the renewable industry estimates that Fifty to Sixty Percent
of the new clean energy capacity needed to meet rising demand could be lost
without the regulatory credits capacity that holds down Illinois energy bills.
The Trump pushed House Resolution One phased out the Clean Energy Investment
Forty Eight E and Production Forty Five Y tax credits for wind and solar with strict,
nearly immediate deadlines most projects cannot meet, and eliminated
the home energy efficiency Twenty Five C and rooftop solar Twenty Five D credits.
Restore these Inflation Reduction Act IRA tax credits. Remove House Resolution One
prohibited foreign entity barriers to clean energy projects. In Illinois, removing
the prohibited foreign entity requirements would lower the cost of energy
infrastructure and, ultimately, energy bills. There is also the Issue of House Resolution One
barring renewable projects from tax credits if they use components from prohibited
foreign entities, which the Current Administration has defined expansively.
Because other countries manufacture many clean energy components,
the rule hits renewables and storage especially hard and it stacks with new tariffs
on clean energy components and transmission hardware such as transformers
and substations. Create a financing program for zero-emission school buses
under the Clean Air Act. Renew the program for Clean Ports and Establish
a Federal Department of Energy Industrial Electrification and Energy Efficiency Program.
Create a new DOE program for acceleration of cleaner manufacturing. Expand programs
To train the environmental workforce. Enforce the Clean Air Act and Clean Water programs.