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Micheál Podgers
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Yassssssifying infrastructure. 📍Chicago 👨🏻‍💻Urban Planner 🗣️ EN DE FR NL GA Professional account. All opinions my own.
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Thank you! This was a massive team effort!
WE DID IT!!!! Transformative funding for transit, grid upgrades to make 100% possible. I am losing my mind. So proud and happy and also thank goodness ❤️

@climatecabinet.org
@dave.bzky.team
@michealpodgers.bsky.social @ilenviro.bsky.social
You guys they did it! They passed a major grid upgrades bill and SAVED TRANSIT with a $1.3b reform package! Nice work Illinois!

So proud of the @climatecabinet.org team's work in the coalition to help get this done!
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WE DID IT!!!! Transformative funding for transit, grid upgrades to make 100% possible. I am losing my mind. So proud and happy and also thank goodness ❤️

@climatecabinet.org
@dave.bzky.team
@michealpodgers.bsky.social @ilenviro.bsky.social
You guys they did it! They passed a major grid upgrades bill and SAVED TRANSIT with a $1.3b reform package! Nice work Illinois!

So proud of the @climatecabinet.org team's work in the coalition to help get this done!
in the next 5.5 hours, the Illinois lege is gonna be a climate hero or a goat. their call. i vote hero
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IT'S TRUE IT HAPPENED. Congrats to the Illinois coalition and @michealpodgers.bsky.social and the rest of the IL team!
BIGGEST STATE LEVEL CLIMATE ACTION OF 2025 👇👇👇👇👇
You guys they did it! They passed a major grid upgrades bill and SAVED TRANSIT with a $1.3b reform package! Nice work Illinois!

So proud of the @climatecabinet.org team's work in the coalition to help get this done!
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Last night, Illinois passed two of the biggest pro-climate laws of 2025

In the final day of session, lawmakers voted for $1.5B in annual transit funding and passed the Clean & Reliable Grid Act

By passing these pro-affordability, pro-climate bills, they've shown what’s possible when states lead 🧵
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Illinois will becoming the 5th state to eliminate local parking requirements for new development projects near transit, after:
—California (assembly bill 2097, 2022)
—Colorado (house bill 24–1304, 2024)
—Oregon (Land Conservation and Development Commission, 2022)
—Washington (house bill 1491, 2025)
Illinois will effectively eliminate parking minimum requirements in ~all of Chicago and much of its suburbs thanks to the transit funding bill that passed last night.
Also contains parking reform! This is a preliminary map of Chicagoland based on the People Over Parking Act provision.

It would also apply downstate though!
Crazy to really process this. But, hell yeah, let’s go!
And therefore BIGGEST US PRO-CLIMATE ACTION OF 2025
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And therefore BIGGEST US PRO-CLIMATE ACTION OF 2025
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BIGGEST STATE LEVEL CLIMATE ACTION OF 2025 👇👇👇👇👇
You guys they did it! They passed a major grid upgrades bill and SAVED TRANSIT with a $1.3b reform package! Nice work Illinois!

So proud of the @climatecabinet.org team's work in the coalition to help get this done!
in the next 5.5 hours, the Illinois lege is gonna be a climate hero or a goat. their call. i vote hero
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You guys they did it! They passed a major grid upgrades bill and SAVED TRANSIT with a $1.3b reform package! Nice work Illinois!

So proud of the @climatecabinet.org team's work in the coalition to help get this done!
in the next 5.5 hours, the Illinois lege is gonna be a climate hero or a goat. their call. i vote hero
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Illinois transit is going to be bigger and better than ever! SB2111 passed!!!
With a 35/22 vote, transit funding and reform passes the Illinois Senate. An historic governance reform and $1.5 billion annual investment in transit proceeds!
Transit funding passed the Illinois House 72/32. Off to the Senate!
Transit funding passed the Illinois House 72/32. Off to the Senate!
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One incredible feature of the legislative process is that every time you pass a bill that amends a law, you are, in fact, changing a deal made in the past.
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One week from today.

Ride to the rally with us! www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/mndot-...
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Just got this action alert, I think from @betterstreetschicago.org

Sign a witness slip immediately for the transit funding bill. Info in alt text

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Huzzah! The Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act passed the Illinois Senate 37/22! Many congrats to the many dedicated people within the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition who made this happen! Illinois continues to double down on the green energy transition.
The Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act just passed the Illinois House 70/37. It’s off to the Senate now. If it passes the Senate CRGA becomes law and Illinois will double down on the clean energy transition.
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If SNAP serves ~1 in 8

Every person in the US - each person in your household - must donate an entire day's worth of food per week to compensate. If you know 3 people who do not donate, you'd need to donate 12 meals/week

Point: do everything you can; also PUSH bc there is only 1 realistic solution
It’s such an empty promise that has grown so big nobody can abandon it. Notably, it would end up being a freight focused airport, which probably also wouldn’t pan out because the freight airlines have invested their resources into ORD.
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🚨 If you haven't already, sign up for rapid text alerts for on-the-ground updates about urgent actions needed in the event we get a new funding package today.

The governor told press today they're working on it – we need to be ready!
🚨 Sign up for rapid text alerts about urgent actions needed to support transit legislation this week!

Whether it's witness slips for committees or last-minute calls – three days to pass monumental transit legislation means we need to be NIMBLE.

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Sign up for rapid alerts to save transit.
We're going to be sending rapid text alerts for urgent actions that are needed – like filing witness slips and last-minute calls. There will be key moments where we may need you to fill out these form...
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It’s been a long two days in Springfield. First, congrats on CRGA passing the House. Get it done tomorrow @harmonil.bsky.social! IL is a leader @govpritzker.illinois.gov Finish job! Do more than save transit tomorrow, make it thrive! IL is the alternative choice: show what’s possible.
The Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act just passed the Illinois House 70/37. It’s off to the Senate now. If it passes the Senate CRGA becomes law and Illinois will double down on the clean energy transition.