217 Today: Restoring America’s Wildlife Act could accelerate nationwide conservation efforts

217 Today: Restoring America’s Wildlife Act could accelerate nationwide conservation efforts

BySydney Wood

Friday, December 16, 2022 Today’s headlines: Illinois’ unemployment rate rose by a tenth of a percentage point to 4.7% in November, but the number of non-farm jobs also rose during that period by 17,500. Illinois Governor J-B Pritzker celebrated the passage of the Workers’ Rights Amendment on Thursday. Those looking for a Christmas tree for…

A federal bill with bipartisan support could bring 20x more money to Illinois conservation efforts
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A federal bill with bipartisan support could bring 20x more money to Illinois conservation efforts

ByIllinois Public Radio

NORMAL — That manatees still swim along Florida’s coast, grizzly bears still roam the west and bald eagles still fly in North American skies is due, in large part, to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 — once described by the Supreme Court as “the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species enacted…