We’ve become accustomed to bad news regarding climate change, but the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) will join us to give some good news. In their new analysis, Soot to Solar: Illinois’s Clean Energy Transition, UCS reports, “Under Illinois’ current plan to increase the amount of renewable power on its grid, the state will reduce the electricity sector’s carbon emissions by 22 percent by 2030.” Jessica Collingsworth, the report’s co-author, and UCS midwest energy policy analyst and advocate, along with Celeste Flores, Lake County outreach director with Faith in Place, will also tell us what steps Illinois could take to at least double the carbon reduction they report, thereby “…prevent[ing] nearly 1,000 premature deaths because of less air pollution.”