Law allows Illinois to take action
on climate change
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
8/19/2019 6:40:00 AM
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law allowing Illinois to take its own action to slow climate change.
The Democrat approved legislation this week that repeals the Kyoto Protocol Act of 1998. It limited state action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The U.S. withdrew from Kyoto in 2001. But Illinois had put it into state law so it was bound by rules the federal government no longer intended to follow. Naperville Democratic Sen. Laura Ellman says it sends a message that "Illinois is ready to get serious about climate change." The law she and Evanston Democratic Rep. Robyn Gabel sponsored takes effect Jan. 1.
Pritzker recalled that in
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 8/19/2019 6:44:03 AM (No. 156022)
You people are crazy
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 8/19/2019 7:30:04 AM (No. 156045)
One more thing to help Illinois speed up it's dive into bankruptcy. No federal bail out. Just let them go to bankruptcy court like anyone else.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/19/2019 7:41:00 AM (No. 156050)
Hasn't this democrat utopia driven enough of it's citizens out yet? What are they worried about, Chicago getting warm in the Winter time? Two of their finest "girls" are getting ready to take action and I can't wait to see what the first step is going to be, maybe Teslas for everybody? A ban on cows? I think they should hire AOC as a consultant.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/19/2019 7:54:35 AM (No. 156055)
Robyn Gabel bio from her web page. It reads like a liberal's wet dream. I hope she isn't using her success in childrens safety and gun violence prevention as an assurance of her future success in Climate Change action:
I serve as the Chair of the House Human Services Committee, the
Vice-Chair of the House Human Services – Appropriations Committee and Museums, Arts & Cultural Enhancements Committee, and as a member of the committees on Insurance, Renewable Energy & Sustainability, Juvenile Justice & System Involved Youth, Environment, and Small Business Empowerment & Workforce Development. In 2015, I was appointed co-chair of the Violence Prevention Task Force.
My main areas of focus are in ensuring the safety of our children, championing environmental and clean energy issues, guaranteeing the rights of women, reforming government to be inclusive and effective, and reducing and preventing gun violence.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/19/2019 7:59:29 AM (No. 156056)
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. " H. L. Mencken
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Quigley 8/19/2019 8:23:19 AM (No. 156070)
They should give each other large medals to wear for being so deeply wonderful, a sort of mary poppins award.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
IdahoJoe 8/19/2019 8:27:56 AM (No. 156071)
Since Global Warming apparently causes everything bad, it can be used as an excuse to make any law the Democrats desire. What's more, the laws can be created by a nameless, faceless EPA that answers to no one. No legislature, no president, nothing. Just new laws popping out of nowhere. The Democrats are already trying to say the EPA is some super governing body who cannot be checked by the President (even though Nixon created the EPA by executive order)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
coobr03 8/19/2019 8:41:21 AM (No. 156078)
Bankrupt Illinois is also paying for sex change operations for medicaid recipients under governor fat head.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chance_232 8/19/2019 8:55:30 AM (No. 156099)
That sucking sound ya'll hear is the sound of businesses leaving the state for locations where they can remain competitive.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
droopydog 8/19/2019 8:55:32 AM (No. 156100)
What's their plan to take care of the massively unfunded pensions...besides making the rest of the nation pay?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/19/2019 9:27:06 AM (No. 156121)
I am reminded of my own foolishness. I have a task with an imminent deadline and am woefully behind yet I find myself easily distracted and work on other way less important tasks (cleaning out drawers, anyone?). Illinois and Chicago are damn near bankrupt but its leaders instead believe it more important to bother with climate change? Seriously?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
padiva 8/19/2019 9:28:17 AM (No. 156125)
'slow climate change' That means that the leaves still have to be on the trees until at least January, right?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
griddog1 8/19/2019 9:30:46 AM (No. 156127)
We live in a Godless society and Illinois leads the pack!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
HotRod 8/19/2019 9:34:23 AM (No. 156130)
Climate change is the least of Illinois problems! Crime, crooked communist politicians, and high taxes are a few things that are much more pressing...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 8/19/2019 9:53:26 AM (No. 156147)
The state is broke, can't find their pension s where are the getting the money to do anything?
They going to to stop Agra business,shut down industry?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hoopsfan 8/19/2019 9:54:30 AM (No. 156150)
Yeah, sure have at that climate change control.
It's not like Illinois has any other major problems to deal with, say like corruption, terrible violence, poor education, massive pension obligations, and the possibility of state and city bankruptcies.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jlw509 8/19/2019 10:01:24 AM (No. 156157)
In 2018, there were 561 murders in Chicago. That's 56100% higher than the numbers killed by CO2. (Actually, that's not quite right, because it assumes that the number killed by CO2 would be "1", when actually it's zero--- but you can't get an intelligible result when multiplying or dividing by zero).
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
SueDotSue 8/19/2019 10:03:23 AM (No. 156160)
The AP has reached a new low: The US never approved Kyoto in 1998 or any other time. Thus it's also false that US withdrew in 2001. Bill Clinton never presented it to congress. How could Bush withdraw from something congress never passed? Further, peer reviewed science says CO2 lags temperatures. Therefore man-caused global warming doesn't exist.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
qr4j 8/19/2019 10:36:24 AM (No. 156195)
It is strange and odd that JB Pritzger and his fellow Dems in the Illinois General Assembly think they can fight changes in the climate when they cannot manage to stem the tide of deadly violence in Chicago and to make and keep Illinois financially solvent.
Taxes and state finances in Illinois are so bad that, over a four-year stretch (approximately 2013 through 2018), the number of people leaving the state equaled the population of the City of Rockford (usually the second largest city in the state). That's more than 150,000 people!
But JB and his pals think they can change the weather for the better. What will they sacrifice on the altar of political control to achieve this? Obviously the People of Illinois.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/19/2019 11:42:33 AM (No. 156244)
Window dressing. Style over substance. Something to do besides playing solitaire at her desk. (Maybe Laura Ellman is a natural blonde.) And, she probably did it with a straight face.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Newtsche 8/19/2019 1:15:23 PM (No. 156295)
Should the rest of Illinois secede from the state or should Chicago/Cook county be driven out?
One of the two...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
RenoVet68 8/19/2019 1:23:25 PM (No. 156302)
I'll believe it when there's no snow or wind in Chicago in winter.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/19/2019 2:29:43 PM (No. 156347)
Slow it? Good luck with that. How will you measure the slowing of weather changes? You people are totally powerless over the climate on earth. If you want a reduction in CO2 then duct tape plastic bags over your head and save the planet from continuing ignorant stupidity.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 8/19/2019 4:36:05 PM (No. 156481)
Steadily heading towards the situation in Kurt Schilchter's dystopian novels, "Indian Country", and "The People's Republic".
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