Illinois EPA attacking carbon emissions in water ports through yearslong planning project

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] and a national nonprofit met Tuesday with the Peoria community to discuss a multiyear planning process to make Illinois waterways and ports more environmentally friendly.

The Illinois EPA joined with Calstart Tuesday evening at 201 S.W. Adams St. in Downtown Peoria to discuss with the public a longterm planning project to decarbonize Illinois waters. Calstart is a California-based nonprofit centered on creating high tech, clean transportation industries across the country.

“This is really an opportunity to explore different strategies to understand what operations are happening here [and] what paths forward may be taken, but this is only a planning project,” Lily Paul, Calstart project lead and deputy director of the Midwest regional office, said at the meeting.

Coverage also seen in NPR Illinois, Wvik, WCBU 89.9, WSIU, and Northern Public Radio.