Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jordan Foley ticks off what he didn’t have when he started an intensive 13-week solar job training program on the West Side: money ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity announced $16 million in funds last week toward clean energy workforce development programs and boosting diversity ...

Powering Rural Futures: Clean energy is creating new jobs in rural America, generating opportunities for people who install solar panels, build wind turbines, weatherize homes and more. This five-part ...

Westchester County is all-in on clean energy, but one of its biggest challenges is finding enough qualified workers to fill jobs. The county, along with private-sector organizations, is preparing ...

Westchester County is taking steps toward a greener future with workforce trainings and developing new coalitions to promote clean energy plans. It takes a village to make changes, and some of these ...

When the Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment in Freeport unveiled its Smith Center for Education & Research last year, it was a showcase of passive house construction designed to be ...

Shawn Honorable graduated with honors last week from Richland Community College’s clean energy workforce training program in Decatur, Illinois, part of a network of hubs funded by the state’s 2021 ...

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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ComEd today announced that more than 681 Illinois residents completed clean energy training programs in 2021 to prepare them for jobs in the growing fields of solar and ...

One way or another, Park Forest will benefit from nearly $600,000 in grants earmarked for the establishment of a clean energy training facility for electric cars and for much-needed local road ...