Environmental News
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced that a new life insurance contract, approved by the County Board at its meeting today, is expected to yield more than $1 million in savings annually.
The Cook County Department of Environmental Control will receive a federal cooperative award of $1.2 million to help bring “community shared” solar power in the region.
The “Solar Market Pathways” project was one of 15 awarded nationally as part of
Cook County has recycled more than one million pounds of old documents, reports and miscellaneous paperwork in the last year-and-a-half, confronting a decades-old problem of records storage as well as generating savings and revenue for the County…
Four Cook County Transportation and Highway Department (CCDoTH) facilities will be largely heated through a solar power project financed through a grant accepted by the County’s Board of Commissioners today.
The Civic Federation supports Cook County’s proposed FY 2015 operating budget in a recently released report.
November 13, 2014
Dear President Preckwinkle:
The Civic Federation recently completed its analysis of your $3.7 billion proposed FY2015 ope