Today, we’re putting the public interest over special interests in Illinois. We aim to bring down costs for families, keep corporations accountable, and instill confidence in consumers who’ve been asked to shoulder a financial weight unreasonably imposed upon them.

All ages Budos! #milenniumpark

An Indiana pastor became an Illinois oilman. Spills and pollution followed.

An Indiana pastor became an Illinois oilman. Spills and pollution followed.

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McCook is 95% full and we have a lot more rain on the way, so expect overflows today. Not great!

At the Illinois Commerce Commission regular open meeting, along with a crew from @thirdactillinois.bsky.social making public comments about the need to reform the Peoples Gas pipe retirement program and transition to safer cleaner energy Thanks to the Third Act volunteers!

Message on ComEd website: Based on the history of similar storms, ComEd expects 80% of interruptions to be restored by Wednesday noon, and the vast majority of remaining customers to be restored by 10pm Friday. Outage map: buff.ly/5NfY9q9 Tips: buff.ly/j6XDsZA

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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“Every dollar spent extending the gas network is a guarantee of more greenhouse gas emissions, more unhealthy air days and more summers like this one.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/23/l...

Letters: Putrid smell at a Loop station is an example of the problems that plague the CTA

Who is monitoring the service and finding ways for employees to report problems firsthand?

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In which I yell at my favorite journal and its thoughtful, talented collection of researchers that we really need to take fossil phase-out seriously as a line of inquiry, and that we would not stand for the level of talking around it as a solution in other settings with very obvious problems:

The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters

The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters, Grubert, Emily

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BREAKING: $4 is back/ according to GasBuddy data, the national average just hit $4/gal again. 2026 is now the first year ever to reach $4 in two separate surges: once in the spring, now again. not in 2008, not in 2022, not ever. two $4 runs in the same year.

NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

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🚨NEW REPORT🚨 The Future of Heat Initiative's latest is accessible here: thefutureofheat.com/safety It's a monster - a banger - a storm of a document so prepare for a walloping (the good kind?). We've crossed the streams (Ghostbusters reference!) of gas spending and safety. This 🧵 goes to 11.

This report is a BFD. It will be a key tool to end wasteful gas utility pipe replacement programs and the policies incentivizing them. 🙏👏🙌 to @justingundlach.bsky.social @dorieseavey.bsky.social @mikeebloomberg.bsky.social and the Future of Heat Initiative team pirg.org/illinois/med...

Liga MX teams just feasting off MLS again

Tom Bogert@tombogert.bsky.social · 2w ago

💣🇧🇪 BREAKING: CF Monterrey is finalizing a deal to sign MLS Golden Boot leader Hugo Cuypers from the Chicago Fire, per sources. Monterrey will pay $7.5m fee + $500k in add-ons. Reporting with @paultenorio.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/745...

At 7 PM the AQI was 689 , the dominant pollutant was PM2.5 and the air quality is hazardous - beyond AQI scale PM2.5 = 689 or 392.96 µg/m³ PM10 = 164 or 656.2 µg/m³ NO₂ = 12 or 13 ppb SO₂ = 0 or NA ppb O₃ = 77 or 62.92 ppb CO = 2 or 0.2 ppb

Peoples Gas cut $58 million, or nearly 30%, from its requested rate increase on Tuesday. Consumer advocates say it is a step in the right direction, but argue it doesn’t go far enough. @maggiedough.bsky.social reports. buff.ly/ZW8Vdma

Peoples Gas cuts $58 million from rate request

Peoples Gas reduces its Illinois rate hike request, lowering the proposed increase for Chicago customers.

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Peoples Gas is seeking to slash its own $202 million rate increase request by $58 million in a filing Tuesday with the Illinois Commerce Commission.

Peoples Gas cuts proposed $202 million rate increase by 30%, citing lower and deferred pipeline costs

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Oil markets and Middle East producers appear to be aligning around a new reality: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer expected to return to a prewar norm.

Oil Surges Most Since 2020, Reflecting Bet That Strait Won’t Go Back to Normal

International crude price climbed nearly 10% as President Trump said he would reimpose U.S. blockade.

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Happy 100th birthday to Kentucky's favorite soft drink, Ale-8-One.

Fracturing wells, leaky pumps and other wear-and-tear are straining the Gulf Coast salt caverns that make up the reserve. on.wsj.com/3SZkgpJ

The U.S. is tapping in to its national stocks of crude with abandon and the withdrawals are pushing an old system to its breaking point

Fracturing wells, leaky pumps and other wear-and-tear are straining the Gulf Coast salt caverns that make up the reserve.

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"Researchers determined 'that replacing natural gas stoves with electric induction stoves improved air quality and led to major improvements in asthma control'" More on the health effects of gas stoves from @cleveland.com. Subscriber only, but more in comments. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/07...

Gas stoves unhealthy for some asthma sufferers, Cleveland study suggests

The study was conducted by MetroHealth and Case Western Reserve University.

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The Budos Band make their own zeitgeist. https://bit.ly/3Tc5QCB

The Budos Band bring heavy grooves and cinematic sounds to Millennium Park - Chicago Reader

The Budos Band make their own zeitgeist.

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In today's story about the ongoing Iran war, oil and gas analysts write: "If China's car industry were handing out a salesman of the year award for 2026 President Trump would be a leading contender." They're talking about Chinese EVs, folks. IEA projects oil demand to fall this year🛢️ More here ⬇️

The Iran war has pushed some countries away from oil and toward clean energy

The new round of bombing in the Middle East has underscored the precarity of relying on fossil fuels. The war is speeding up the global transition to EVs, solar and batteries, experts say.

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Thanks to @ilattygeneral.bsky.social for working with the FTC to reach a settlement with Deere over repair restrictions illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/news/story/a...

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"People with poorly controlled asthma may be able to breathe easier by swapping out their gas stoves for electric ones, according to a new study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice." www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S221...

Again, if I were France, I would simply score four goals (three in the first half) against Paraguay. I was told this was easy when the United States men’s national team did it

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · last mo.

if I were Germany, I would simply score four goals against Paraguay, like the United States men's national team

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They simply have to kill this guy. They have to put him out of his misery.