AUGUSTA, Maine (WGME) -- Wednesday is the start of a new legislative session in Augusta. The 132nd Legislature begins with Democrats maintaining control of the House, Senate, and governor’s office.

ComEd and Nicor Gas are collaborating to provide advanced energy efficiency certification opportunities to recent graduates of the utilities' Market Development Initiative (MDI) programs. MDI is. . .

CHICAGO (CN) — Jurors in the ongoing corruption trial of ex-Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan came back to Chicago's federal courthouse on Monday, following a holiday break of more than two weeks.

The 108th Legislature tackled a bevy of controversial issues that ratcheted up emotions and prompted frequent filibusters.

Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday night signed an enormous bill with a cornucopia of measures passed in the final hours of December’s lame-duck legislative session, including permitting police to charge up ...

The Illinois Commerce Commission has signed off on Commonwealth Edison Co.’s second crack at a multi-year grid plan, teeing ...

Barbara Hernandez, an Aurora Democrat and sponsor of a bill to incentivize energy storage ... they often generate electricity ...

To hear David Ellis tell it, when ComEd came to Springfield in 2011 hoping to get some utility-friendly legislation passed, ...

And McClain didn’t make any promises about the bill’s success ... the speaker’s behalf. For example, Madigan attorney Tom Breen, when cross-examining former ComEd executive-turned-FBI ...

Illinois utilities are set to invest more than a billion dollars into upgrading the state’s electric distribution grid, resulting in higher rates for customers around the state. The Illinois ...

This is an important perception when rate cases are underway or increased rates begin to appear on the bill, since elevated perception of those investments correlates with 12% higher trust in ...

Trump’s demands upended efforts to pass a stopgap spending bill to keep the government funded through mid-March, a measure that also includes more than $100 billion in disaster and farm aid.