Give nuclear energy a chance to help end carbon pollution in Illinois

A 2016 file photo shows Exelon Corp.’s Clinton Power Station. Last summer, Gov. J.B. Pritzker vetoed a bill to lift the state’s decades-old moratorium on building new nuclear reactors to generate electricity. (John Dixon/AP file)

The Illinois General Assembly is scheduled to soon take up bills vetoed this year by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Among those he vetoed was a bipartisan bill to lift the state’s decades-old moratorium on building new nuclear reactors to generate electricity.  

If it stands, his action will contribute to the state’s woefully inadequate response to global warming caused by carbon pollution.