{"id":692208,"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.com\/index\/692208","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":2515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2U4E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}