Campus Climate Neutral
ILLINOIS
Model State Climate Law & Policy Project
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View the CCN Illinois State Policy Powerpoint Here!!!

PROJECT LEADERS

Dan Tarlock Distinguished Professor of Law, Chicago Kent College of Law Director, Program in Environmental & Energy Law	Stephen Janasie ("J") NAELS Co-Chair 3L, Chicago Kent College of Law
“Chicago-Kent is seeking real world solutions through the assistance of real word partners. This is an ideal approach when addressing one of the great challenges of the 21st century.” NAELS Co-Chair, Stephen Janasie, sjanasie@kentlaw.edu, 312-515-7866

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SUMMARY

This past fall, Chicago-Kent’s Program in Environmental and Energy Law (PEEL) took on the first of CCN’s law and policy projects. The Kent project consisted of individual student research taken from the position of a selected Illinois stakeholder in the climate debate. The individual research led to a CCN in Illinois Powerpoint that the students presented to the Environmental Section of the Illinois State Bar Association.

NAELS, PEEL, and the program participants worked to find a real-world partner for each student’s research project. Ultimately, NAELS hopes students will turn their work into a scholarly paper. Future CCN projects will also look to provide students with legislative drafting experience, working together to produce mockmodel climate change legislation for Illinois.

Participating students - Stephen Janasie, Aakruti, and Ellen Bluestone registered for Professor A. Dan Tarlock's two-credit environmental law seminar; International Environmental Law. In addition, the students registered for a two-credit independent study.

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LINKS

Problem:

• Illinois Inventory of GHG Emissions: 1998 (2000)
• 1990 EPA Inventory
• UCS Illinois State Summary

Solutions

• Progress in the States (Pew)
• UCS Illinois State Solutions
• ICC Adopts Governor's Sustainability Plan - Press Release, July 19, 2005
• Illinois Wind Energy Presentation: ELPC
• IL Climate Change Action Plan (1994)
• Illinois Sustainable Energy Plan
• Illinois Renewable Incentives Page

  
  
• IL Renewable Portfolio Standard Fact Sheet (ICC)
• Illinois Resource Development and Energy Security Act
• § 20 ILCS 688/5. Findings

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