Environmental Entrepreneurs and Evergreen Climate Innovations released their eighth annual Clean Jobs Midwest report. The report features Illinois and eleven other states and shows the clean energy and transportation fields added more than 25,000 jobs in 2022 that employ more than 734,000 people in the Midwest. The energy efficiency sector is the largest in the clean energy industry with about 488,000 workers in the Midwest.

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E2: Senate “Slams Brakes” on Made-in-USA Energy, Putting Projects, Jobs and Energy Security At Risk

WASHINGTON (July 1, 2025) – The U.S. Senate passed a massive tax and spending bill that will phase out and repeal federal tax policies creating jobs, driving new investments in manufacturing, and increasing American energy production. Businesses have ann...

June 28 2025

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Businesses Cancel $1.4 Billion In New Factories, Energy Projects in May as Congress Pushes Forward on Tax Increases

Cancellations now total $15.5 billion since January; nearly 12,000 jobs lost GOP districts see $9 billion in investments; 10,000 jobs disappear due to cancelled or delayed projects so far $444 million in new investments announced in M...

June 22 2025

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Senate Bill Threatens Investments, Jobs, Energy Security

Federal tax policies that are creating jobs and increasing America’s energy supplies would be phased out or repealed in new language released by the Senate Finance Committee today as part of President Trump’s massive tax and spending package.

June 16 2025

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