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Arlington Heights company to install more than 5,000 solar panels

Daily Herald report
Aug 23, 2019 6:07 PM - An Arlington Heights-based machine tool manufacturer broke ground Friday on a green energy project that will install 5,040 solar panels on seven acres of the company's property.
Paneling project could help Naperville 'build up on solar'

By Marie Wilson
Aug 19, 2019 1:19 PM - Naperville soon could be generating solar power at three municipal buildings, creating enough electricity to supply 161 homes for a year.
Clean Cities helps businesses, municipalities learn about electric vehicles

Joe Koenig
Aug 14, 2019 10:51 AM - Electric vehicles aren't only being considered by consumers. Businesses and municipalities also are looking at the future of transportation, and planning what they will need to efficiently operate in the coming years.
How Lake County is using software to lower fuel costs and emissions

By Mick Zawislak
Aug 9, 2019 10:28 AM - The Lake County Division of Transportation has been using idling software in vehicles to reduce fuel costs and emissions.
As tollway ends Route 53 extension study, now the question: Do what with that Lake County land?

By Marni Pyke
Jul 15, 2019 4:49 PM - Illinois tollway leaders pulled the plug on an expensive environmental impact study of a Route 53 extension into Lake County, citing a lack of consensus and a desire to pivot to other major building priorities.
East Dundee president: $5K settlement for environmental violations an 'insult' to residents

By Harry Hitzeman
Jul 1, 2019 3:23 PM - The Illinois attorney general's office has levied a $5,000 fine against now-defunct Golden Plastics because it moved equipment into the old Haeger Pottery building in East Dundee without a permit and discharged chemicals for months on end that residents complained smelled like baby powder.
Midwest Groundcovers completes newest solar power project

Submitted by Realgy Energy
Jun 12, 2019 3:40 PM - Realgy LLC announced the completion of their newest solar photovoltaic (PV) system consisting of 325 watts at Midwest Groundcovers, LLC. Their 240-watt system installed 8 years ago underwent a complete overhaul. Midwest Groundcovers is the leading wholesale container nursery in the tri-state area.
Talks to extend ethylene oxide air testing underway

By Doug T. Graham
Jun 7, 2019 6:23 PM - A 30-day period of outdoor air monitoring in Gurnee and Waukegan -- designed to measure the cancer-causing gas ethylene oxide emitted from two manufacturers -- is underway. And Stop ETO in Lake County is hosting a rally Saturday to encourage further regulations and testing.
G&W builds second facility in Bolingbrook

May 27, 2019 1:00 AM - G&W Electric Co., a global supplier of electric power equipment since 1905, has completed construction of its second facility in Bolingbrook.
Energy legislation 'on the back burner' in Springfield

By Jerry Nowicki
May 21, 2019 3:58 PM - As the General Assembly moves toward its May 31 adjournment with issues such as a state budget, graduated income tax, and the legalization of sports gambling and recreational marijuana still to be decided, a package of energy market reforms likely will have to wait until the fall veto session or later before moving forward.

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