Illinois Is Going All In on Battery Storage. What Will That Mean? - Inside Climate News As power-guzzling data centers proliferate across the country and drive electricity prices up, batteries could be a part of the solution.

As power-guzzling data centers proliferate across the country and drive electricity prices up, batteries could be a part of the solution.

Illinois’ Governor Has Led on Climate Policy. Here’s How Experts Assess His Work So Far - Inside Climate News JB Pritzker gets praise for a landmark climate bill. But plenty remains undone.

While Illinois has bold, transformative climate goals for the power sector, the brilliant and handsome expert quoted in this article says we’re failing—badly—to address agriculture, which covers 75% of the state's landscape. insideclimatenews.org/news/3007202...

Severe Weather, Uncertain Funding: What’s It Like to be a Local Emergency Manager These Days? - Inside Climate News John Dwyer coordinates emergency management in Champaign County, Illinois. He’s seeing a lot more weather extremes, from tornadoes to a major dust storm, even as federal money to keep people safe seem...

Some new climate reporting from me (and my first time writing about my dad's home state of Illinois):

On Najwan Darwish - The Paris Review The Palestinian poet’s new collection, No One Will Know You Tomorrow, depicts life under Israeli occupation.

Reviewed Najwan Darwish's excellent new poetry collection www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/01...

MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources

Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

PSA to my friends in California near the fires: breathing in wildfire smoke is really bad for you (even if it’s not super thick where you are) but if you have face masks (N95, KN95, etc) those can help a lot