Oak Park Climate Action Network

Electric Vehicle Tax Credits set to end in 2025: What You Need to Know | Edmunds How does the electric car tax credit work? When will it expire? Read our analysis, plus see a full list of cars that qualify for an EV tax credit. We also cover how you can get the credit as a discoun...

There are less than 2 months left to save thousands of dollars on a new or used electric vehicle. Federal tax incentives expire on September 30, 2025!

Check out qualifying EVs at the link below.

#ElectricVehicles #CleanEnergy

How young activists won a climate fight for the world July 23 was a landmark day in the global fight for affixing legal responsibility on all nations for inaction to contain the harmful impact of climate change on

We've got to keep our eyes open for good climate news.

#climate #climatechange #climatesuccess

Really interesting idea! We need a lot of them! #cleanenergy

Oak Park banned natural gas in new buildings, but a legal fight is underway The west suburb was the first municipality in the Midwest to pass an electrification ordinance. Opponents of the ban said it violates the federal Energy Policy Act.

Oak Park banned natural gas in new construction to address climate change and improve air quality, but fossil fuel companies are trying to stop our community from deciding what works for us. We're pushing back.

#climatechange #fossilfuels #oakpark #oakparkil #oakparkillinois

Opinion | Dire predictions about renewable energy were all wrong Europe, China and the U.S. are making great strides on carbon emissions. But we need more innovation.

"What the headlines clearly show is that progress is not only possible — it is happening. Dire predictions that changes to the global energy supply would destroy economies and plunge civilizations into reverse have been proved wrong." #cleanenergy #greenenergy

EPA poised to scrap landmark finding that will limit its battle on climate change A 2009 scientific finding established that greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to human health

"EPA poised to scrap landmark finding that will limit its battle against climate change" by @juliaelenamusto.bsky.social for @the-independent.com:

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

U.N. court rules countries have duty to limit greenhouse emissions The court was asked to rule on whether nations are obligated under international law to protect the Earth’s climate from planet-warming emissions.

The United Nations’ highest judicial body ruled that nations must prevent environmental harm and limit greenhouse gas emissions. The nonbinding decision pressures countries to fulfill climate pledges and opens doors for global climate cases.

Mac Robinet with all 7 members of the Oak Park Village Board.

OPCAN co-founder, mentor, and sustainability pioneer Mac Robinet has been honored with a proclamation from the Village of Oak Park!

Congratulations, Mac!

#envioronmentalleader #oakpark #oakparkil #oakparkillinois

Americans Are Concerned About Climate Change—but They Should Be Afraid Americans still don’t comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat is—and journalists are partly to blame.

“I constantly make the point that only 29 percent are very worried, when it should be 100 percent,” Leiserowitz told Covering Climate Now. “This reflects [climate change’s] lack of salience for most Americans.”

The Trump administration is reviving proposals to expand oil and gas leasing across more than one million acres of public land in California — from the Central Valley to Northern CA. There’s 1 week left to leave public comment. Our @evanlgeorge.bsky.social explains.

Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally Nature Communications - The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings...

Happy to share our new paper: we show that human-caused climate change is raising the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe
@climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social
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#ClimateChange #Wildfires

🏙️ 🆒 💽 We expanded the Smart Surfaces Policy Tracker! This resource makes local #climateadaptation policy readily accessible. The database features a searchable set of nearly 2,000 laws & policies from across the US, along / resources on best practices & a glossary of terms. 🔗smartsurfacespolicy.org

As the nations lag on climate action, cities across the world step up A new report documents how local communities are becoming more livable and sustainable.

"Ten years after the Paris Agreement, nations are still nowhere near ambitious enough in their commitments to reduce emissions and avoid the worst consequences of climate change... Instead, it’s been cities and other local governments that have taken the lead."

#ClimateChange #SustainableCities

Happy Independence Day. The Oak Park Climate Action Network (OP-CAN) works every day to make our nation and world more secure against the climate crisis through advocacy and action in Oak Park and surrounding communities.

Wishing you time with family and friends this 4th of July. Recharge your batteries so you can work to address the climate crisis here in Oak Park!

#4thofjuly #happy4thofjuly🇺🇸 #climatecrisis #climate #oakpark #oakparkil #oakparkillinois

Latest GOP Provisions in Budget Bill Seek to Crush Renewable Energy - Inside Climate News Last-minute additions to the Senate draft of the budget reconciliation bill would accelerate the rollback of Biden-era climate and renewable energy tax credit programs and put an excise tax on wind an...

The #BudgetBill would end tax credits for heat pumps, induction stoves, and other home electrification by December 31, 2025. Our local representatives should be voting against it, but if the bill passes, you can still get access to the tax credit between now and the end of this year.

Was this one buckling road caused by #ClimateChange? Hard to say. Did climate change cause conditions that make it more likely for roads to buckle? Most definitely.

You can help address climate change by electrifying your homes, #OakPark. Apply for grants today:
https//www.oak-par...

Climate Ready Energy Grants. Costs are rising. Help is here. $1K, $5K and $10K grants to make your home more energy efficient and save on utility bills.

Oak Park homeowners: Cut your energy bills and get up to $10K in grants for upgrades. Apply now! www.oak-park.us/EnergyGrants

#oakpark #ClimateReady #electrification #energyefficiency #energygrants

Noise and light pollution are definitely a concern as well -- our preoccupation as a climate action group is air pollution, especially CO2, but we are up for limiting those other kinds of pollution too!

Go solar with $1K, $5K or $10K grants from the village of Oak Park. Own a home in Oak Park? There's free money for energy efficient upgrades. Go to OakPark.us/EnergyGrants

Oak Park homeowners: Thinking about solar panels? Get up to $10K in grant funding to go green. Apply now! www.oak-park.us/EnergyGrants

#oakpark #ClimateReady #electrification #energyefficiency #energygrants

Climate Ready Energy Grants Lower your energy bills with $1K, $5K, or $10K grants Own a home in Oak Park? There's free money for energy efficient upgrades.

Oak Park homeowners: Get up to $10K to install a heat pump system and cut energy bills. Apply now! www.oak-park.us/EnergyGrants

#oakpark #ClimateReady #electrification #energyefficiency #energygrants

Own a home in Oak Park? Get up to $10K per year to make it energy efficient with these 8 projects. Apply now:
www.oak-park.us/EnergyGrants  

#oakpark #ClimateReady #electrification #energyefficiency #energygrants

Stand Up For Climate: Say NO to Dirty Bill Join us on June 9th, 2025 at 5:00pm PT / 8:00pm ET for a movement wide call to rally against the dirty budget bill in Congress. The budget bill recently passed by House Republicans is the worst atta...

TONIGHT: Join the call to push back on Republicans' plan to pull the plug on thousands of planned solar, wind, and clean energy projects, and result in higher electric bills from coast-to-coast.

#cleanenergy #solar #windpower

OP-CAN volunteers at Oak Park Farmers' Market.

OP-CAN is at the Oak Park Farmers' Market this morning sharing information about community solar and other options for electrifying your home.

More information:
opcan.org/resources

#electrifyeverything #electrification #climate #climatechange #oakpark #oakparkil #oakparkillinois

Gas-powered leaf blowers are prohibited in Oak Park starting June 1, 2025.

Gas-powered leaf blowers are prohibited in Oak Park starting June 1, 2025. This new ordinance will help reduce carbon and other forms of air pollution, as well as noise pollution.

#gaspoweredleafblower #pollution #airpollution #carbonemissions #noisepollution #oakpark #oakparkil #oakparkillinois

A Look Back on Our Open Houses — Oak Park Climate Action Network The shift toward sustainability is no longer a vision for the future—it’s happening right now. As Oak Park seeks cleaner, greener ways to power our homes and businesses, adopting all-electric heating ...

This March and April, OPCAN hosted Open Houses in a few of our neighbors’ homes to showcase what sustainable living looks like.

Please check out our recent blog post recapping these events:
opcan.org/updates/a-lo...

#cleanenergy #climate #climatechange #oakpark #oakparkil #oakparkillinois

Here are some more photos of OP-CAN members participating in the @ilenviro.bsky.social Climate Action Lobby Day this week. Thank you to Rep. Lilly and Senator Harmon for meeting with us!

#climateaction #climate #illinois #lobbyday

Community members at the Illinois Environmental Council lobby day rally in Springfield, Illinois.

OP-CAN took part in the Illinois Environmental Council lobby day in Springfield today to advocate for clean energy and public transit. Thanks @ilenviro.bsky.social for organizing the event! #cleanenergy #publictransit

Let’s Kick Single-Use Plastic and Waste NOW! Call on the Illinois legislature to reduce single-use plastic waste, starting with plastic bags, foam cups, containers, and other food ware!

SB1531, a bill to phase out toxic foam foodware in Illinois has passed the Senate and moved out of House committee. Please contact your House representative to vote in favor. If you need it, the link is below.

#plastic #plasticpollution #singleuseplastics #illinois

Hazel Johnson Launched an Environmental Movement in Chicago That Trump Is Trying to End - Inside Climate News Cheryl Johnson, who took charge of People for Community Recovery in 2010, just before her mother’s death, says MAGA can’t end a decadeslong fight that affects poor white communities as well as communi...

Our history can fuel us. Hazel Johnson was one of the mothers of the environmental justice movement and she did her work here in Chicago. Her daughter Cheryl continues it today -- the work is under threat, and we need to fight back.

#environmentaljustice #chicago #oakpark

Noaa to stop tracking cost of climate crisis-fueled disasters: ‘Major loss’ US agency will no longer update major weather database in latest showing of Trump’s influence on climate resources

The federal government continues to abdicate its responsibility on climate change, so we need to to advance our work on the local level. Check out this story:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

And then join OP-CAN in advocating for local climate solutions:
opcan.org

#climate #oakpark