Persistence pays off in Springfield. Take the effort to foist a new “clean coal” plant on Illinois ratepayers that has been percolating in the General Assembly after being repeatedly voted down in the Senate. more ›

You have to appreciate Senator Cullerton's stick-to-it-iveness... After a "clean coal" bill he championed was voted down for the third time, he pulled a slick parliamentary move this week to keep the proposal alive. more ›

According to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, the answer is yes. On Monday her office accused ComEd -- and its parent company Excelon -- of lobbying aggressively to kill a bill before the state legislature that would have required utilities to purchase as much as five percent of their electricity from clean-coal plants. The bill, which House Speaker Mike Madigan strongly supported, failed in the House Saturday. more ›