State Senator Steve McClure (R-Springfield) released the following statement after the Governor signed a new controversial energy omnibus bill into law:
“When the Governor signed his last big energy bill just a few years ago, he promised it would lower rates, despite our warnings that it would cause prices to skyrocket. Illinois families have since seen their electric bills climb to record highs.
“Now the Governor is once again intentionally misleading the public and claiming this new bill will lower rates. The truth is that this new legislation will have an even worse impact on our state’s electric bills. This new law weakens local control over controversial projects, allowing battery storage facilities to be built just 150 feet from homes, it removes rate caps that protect families, and it puts the ratepayers on the hook to cover costly new projects based on unproven technologies.
“People in the 54th District are already struggling to pay their out-of-control electric bills, and this new law will only make it worse.”
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