Illinois PIRG 2024 Legislative Agenda
Illinois PIRG works to create a healthier, safer, more secure future for all Illinoisians. Here are the problems we are working to solve in 2023.
Utility watchdog
Standing up to utilities and for consumers for 50 years.
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Dry cleaner with an electric clothes dryer
Need to replace your water heater? Consider electric
Updates
Illinois to investigate the future of gas
Regulators launch investigation into Peoples Gas pipe replacement program
Mayor Johnson introduces Clean and Affordable Buildings Ordinance
What You Can Do
Featured Resources
Formula rate profit guarantees and how they threaten Illinois’ energy goals
Formula rates are dead, long live guaranteed profits
Take Our Power Back Agenda
Illinois PIRG’s 2021 State Legislative Agenda
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Holding ComEd accountable
Our work leading up to regulators' decision to reject ComEd’s grid plan and slash its profit rate
Utility regulators reject Peoples Gas’ attempt to claw back profits
We thank the Illinois Commerce Commission for continuing to hold Peoples Gas accountable.
New era of consumer, climate-oriented utility oversight
For the second time in a month, utility regulators at the Illinois Commerce Commission on Thursday handed down decisions that portend the beginning of a new era of consumer- and climate-focused utility oversight in Illinois.
Aggressive utility oversight critical to the clean energy transition
Read my opinion column in the Chicago Sun Times
Don’t let ComEd have its profit-rich cake and eat it too
The Chicago Tribune ran my OpEd arguing regulators should not approve a huge increase in guaranteed profits for ComEd