Illinois Achieved a Broad Climate Law. How Do Supply and Demand Respond?

Published on November 19, 2021

This September, on a sunny late summer morning in Chicago, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signed a comprehensive piece of environmental legislation called the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA). Standing on the shore of Lake Michigan, just outside the world-famous Shedd Aquarium, Pritzker heralded the bill as a major step forward for a state with strong ancestral ties to the coal mining industry.

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