Encouraging Update: How Community Solar Turned a Superfund Site into Savings in Illinois | A Sign of Progress

Encouraging Update: How Community Solar Turned a Superfund Site into Savings in Illinois | A Sign of Progress

Why this story matters: Stories like this show how communities, innovation, and determination can lead to lasting improvements. Quick summary: This story highlights recent developments related to climate environment, showing how constructive action can lead to meaningful results. This story was originally published by Canary Media, an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis. A s someone who spent several years as a workers’ rights organizer, Fredy Amador is intimately familiar with the financial struggles people face in the current economy. Northern Illinois’ skyrocketing energy bills make the situation even tougher. Now, Amador has become an evangelist for something that can provide a modest measure of relief: A community solar project, built on a Superfund site too polluted for much else in the city of Waukegan where he lives, about 40 miles north of Chicago. Would you like to read more good news about Climate Environme…