Karein Weigert joins WBEZ to discuss the COP27 conference and the need for an international plan to fight climate change and reduce global emissions.
Ahead of Arbor Day, Nonresident Senior Fellow Karen Weigert discusses efforts in Chicago to create more wetlands and plant trees with WBEZ’s Reset.
The new rule will replace the Clean Power Plan unveiled by the former Obama administration in 2015 and is expected to go into effect within 30 days.
Chicago plans on transitioning all of its buildings to 100 percent renewable energy by 2035 and to electrify the CTA bus fleet by 2040.
Has Chicago's notorious weather suddenly become its biggest asset? Does the city of wind chill and blizzards actually have the climate that somebody would pay $5 billion for?
Chicago elected officials and environmental leaders react to President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.
The vulnerability of the U.S. electrical grid was illustrated in 2003, when the largest blackout in US history left 50 million people in darkness.
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