Last week, the Trump administration delivered a catastrophic blow to U.S. climate policy by repealing the longstanding scientific finding that planet-warming pollution poses a danger to humans. Now comes the yearslong race through the courts.

Last August, Gov. J.B. Pritzker released an eight-point plan that boldly declared “we will become the best state in the country for electric vehicle producers and consumers,” including by increasing the adoption of electric vehicles in the state to 750,000 by 2030.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s new report on air quality shows that while air pollution is a problem across the city, it’s worse in some neighborhoods than others. What her administration is planning to do about it.

Debate and dissent over how Illinois should spend its share of the Volkswagen diesel emissions payout.