The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has launched a climate action plan to serve as a blueprint for reducing the agency’s carbon footprint and achieving Gov. JB Pritzker’s greenhouse gas reduction goals by 2050.
IDNR plans to develop a pollinator-friendly solar installation. The proposals will be for a Power Purchase Agreement, in which IDNR may license one or more 5 to 25-acre parcels of land formerly leased for agriculture.
In September, IDNR staff and the public can learn more about commercial electric mowers and other site maintenance tools that reduce fuel use and costs while decreasing climate emissions.
Representatives from several tool manufacturers will be on site to demonstrate their electric landscaping equipment at Lewis and Clark State Historic Site in Madison County.
You can view IDNR's complete climate action plan here.
