BIG IN THE NEWS BIG PRESS RELEASES Elza Ter-Arutyunov 1/31/24 Elza Ter-Arutyunov 1/31/24 Blacks In Green Launching Environmental Justice Center With Free Event This Week Block Club Chicago — January 31st, 2024 Read More Tesia Kisner 4/16/23 Tesia Kisner 4/16/23 Chicago’s Blacks in Green Gets a Major Boost From a $10 Million EPA Grant Energy News Network — April 16th, 2023 Read More Tesia Kisner 4/13/23 Tesia Kisner 4/13/23 Biden-Harris Administration Selects Blacks in Green to Serve as New Technical Assistance Center to Help Communities Across Region 5 Access Historic Investments and Advance Environmental Justice EPA — April 13th, 2023 Read More PRESS RELEASES Featured December 17, 2024 Blacks in Green Selected for Funding to Deploy $9.9 Million Dollar Community Geothermal Heating and Cooling Initiative in its 2nd Year December 17, 2024 Read more → December 17, 2024 April 15, 2024 Illinois Finance Authority Approves Vital Loan, Raising Financing to $2.9M for Pre-development of GEJC’s 9MW Community Solar Projects April 15, 2024 Read more → April 15, 2024 March 15, 2024 Blacks in Green Celebrates $100K Gift from ADT and Launches Foundational Relationship March 15, 2024 Read more → March 15, 2024 December 12, 2023 Co-op Founded by Blacks in Green Wins Unprecedented Solar Development Award from State of Illinois December 12, 2023 Read more → December 12, 2023 November 20, 2023 Campaign to End Energy Poverty Celebrates a Win for Energy Affordability in Illinois November 20, 2023 Read more → November 20, 2023 October 4, 2023 New Website Helps People Have a Voice in Energy Decisions That Affect Their Lives, Communities October 4, 2023 Read more → October 4, 2023 July 23, 2023 Blacks in Green Launches New Art Installation and Till House Museum Groundbreaking Ceremony at Emmett Till Birthday Celebration July 23, 2023 Read more → July 23, 2023 July 17, 2023 Blacks in Green Receives $1.5 Million Inaugural Grant from the Bezos Earth Fund for Urban Greening July 17, 2023 Read more → July 17, 2023 May 11, 2023 Advocates Issue Call to Utilities to Negotiate in Light of Illinois Utility Affordability Crisis May 11, 2023 Read more → May 11, 2023 April 13, 2023 Biden-Harris Administration Selects Blacks in Green to Serve as New Technical Assistance Center with $10M Grant to Advance Environmental Justice April 13, 2023 Read more → April 13, 2023 March 2, 2023 Coalition of Consumer Rights, Environmental, Community-Based Groups Propose the People’s Utility Rate Relief Act March 2, 2023 Read more → March 2, 2023 MEDIA CONTACT: Elza Ter-Arutyunov | elza@blacksingreen.org
Elza Ter-Arutyunov 1/31/24 Elza Ter-Arutyunov 1/31/24 Blacks In Green Launching Environmental Justice Center With Free Event This Week Block Club Chicago — January 31st, 2024 Read More
Tesia Kisner 4/16/23 Tesia Kisner 4/16/23 Chicago’s Blacks in Green Gets a Major Boost From a $10 Million EPA Grant Energy News Network — April 16th, 2023 Read More
Tesia Kisner 4/13/23 Tesia Kisner 4/13/23 Biden-Harris Administration Selects Blacks in Green to Serve as New Technical Assistance Center to Help Communities Across Region 5 Access Historic Investments and Advance Environmental Justice EPA — April 13th, 2023 Read More