Howard A. Learner: Earth Day is a reminder that Illinois must come up with environmental solutions
Here are four key opportunities in 2026 to deliver safer clean water, healthier clean air and better public transit for Illinois.
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Howard A. Learner: Now, let’s focus on making Chicago’s regional transit system work better
Now that Illinois has passed a transit bill, the focus must shift to how to make our transit system work better and more efficiently.
Chicago should shift EV infrastructure into high gear
The Chicago Auto Show is a great place to see the automakers' new car models and futurist concept designs. Clean electric vehicles and hybrids have moved from the sidelines to...
Obsolete electronics pose waste danger
Television broadcasting, sets and signals will soon be transformed. As the Chicago Tribune recently editorialized ("The end of TV ... as you know it," Editorial, Dec. 3), the switch to...
Cleaner energy
President Bush has now recognized America's "addiction to oil." He crossed a partisan divide by emphasizing modern, new, clean energy technologies--biomass energy, wind power, solar energy and coal gasification--to increase...
Kudos to Toll Highway Authority on reform steps
Drivers hate tollway congestion. Consumers oppose toll-increase proposals and wasteful agency spending. Environmentalists have long differed with the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority over its operating approaches and, especially, its...
MAKING BETTER CHOICES CAN ALLEVIATE URBAN SPRAWL
The Chicago Tribune's article on sprawl ("Greener pastures devoured by sprawl," News, March 18) correctly explained how unmanaged growth can devastate established communities, as well as those poised for expansion....
INVEST FOR FUTURE IN HIGH-SPEED RAIL
Passenger rail service in the Midwest is, unfortunately, at substandard levels. We rely on trains that move at an average speed of 55 m.p.h., lagging well behind Europe, Japan and...
EDISON AND ICC SHOULD FOLLOW THE LAW
The Tribune`s Dec. 29 editorial asks: ''Will the Edison rate case ever end?'' The hopeful answer is ''yes''-when the Illinois Commerce Commission and Commonwealth Edison finally follow the law, rather...