A forward-thinking Evanston city council has approved a Climate Action and Resilience Plan , reportedly the first city in Illinois to commit to 100 percent clean, renewable energy.

It has some great aspects aimed at protecting the North Shore Channel, part of the Chicago River system, according to Friends of the Chicago River, a non-profit environmental organization.

Noting that with global warming there have been, and will likely continue to be, heavy rain events, Evanston rightly is concerned with combined sewer overflows. These releases of untreated wastewater into the Chicago River system occur when the sewage system is overtaxed from storms.

