SPRINGFIELD — With an increasing number of officials warning Illinois might struggle to meet its renewable energy goals, regulators and lawmakers met Tuesday to discuss how the state should ...

Sun-Times file Share Somewhere in the effort to boost the amount of electricity Illinois gets from renewable energy, the wires have gotten crossed. A federal agency last week agreed to essentially ...

The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is facing a lawsuit over its racial hiring quotas after a former professor claimed he was illegally "retaliated" against for objecting to its allegedly ...

More energy news as federal funding for climate science faces cuts under Trump, while Ohio wrestles with “a supply and demand ...

"When we fund science, we invest in our communities and our future," writes David Jurgens, a Decatur native and current ...

I love that. The energy, the toughness, the hustle, the athleticism is off the charts.” It’s a combination Illinois will have to make do without for the foreseeable future. Johnson watched ...

Lawmakers also are likely to take up “energy efficiency” legislation to put the same requirements on Ameren — the electric utility that serves most of downstate Illinois — as are on ComEd ...

A professor in Illinois is suing the university that employed him after he says he was let go for voicing concerns about race-based hiring. Dr. Stephen Kleinschmit filed the federal lawsuit ...