{"id":432908,"date":"2010-03-15T20:35:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T00:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a93dc366970b"},"modified":"2010-03-15T20:35:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T00:35:50","slug":"illinois-senate-approves-bill-to-allow-new-nuclear-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/432908","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Senate approves bill to allow new nuclear power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<em>Posted by Ray Long at 7:32 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SPRINGFIELD&#8211;With little debate, the Senate voted today\u00a0to drop the ban on building nuclear power plants in Illinois. The measure was sent to the House on\u00a0a bipartisan 40-1 vote, with two lawmakers voting present.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike\u00a0Jacobs, the East Moline Democrat who sponsored the proposal, said Illinois should take advantage of the efforts by President Barack Obama, a former Illinois state senator, to back some nuclear power projects, citing federal support for a power plant in Georgia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lone opposition came from\u00a0Sen. Jeff Schoenberg, D-Evanston, who maintained there is no political consensus on whether to reopen shuttered nuclear power plants or build anew. <\/p>\n<p>Business and labor groups supported the legislation, but similar proposals have failed to make it through the legislature\u00a0in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><\/br>\u00a0<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Posted by Ray Long at 7:32 p.m. SPRINGFIELD&#8211;With little debate, the Senate voted today\u00a0to drop the ban on building nuclear power plants in Illinois. The measure was sent to the House on\u00a0a bipartisan 40-1 vote, with two lawmakers voting present. Sen. Mike\u00a0Jacobs, the East Moline Democrat who sponsored the proposal, said Illinois should take advantage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}