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Johnson, McKenzie 2023-05 application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01 The student, Shannon Anderson, accepted the attached license on 2023-04-26 at 11:07. The student, Shannon Anderson, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2023-04-26 at 11:26. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2023-05-03 at 16:29. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #19191 on 2023-09-01 at 17:15:05 Energy Policy Energy Justice Environmental Justice Spatial dimensions of energy politics: Geography and equity in the Illinois energy transition Anderson, Shannon Rose 2023-05-03 Energy Transition State Policy In 2021, Illinois passed the Energy Transition Act, popularly referred to as the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), establishing clean energy goals with an emphasis on equity. CEJA outlines specific mechanisms to improve environmental justice and equity outcomes in the state-mandated transition to clean energy. This thesis interrogates how equity and justice are institutionalized in state energy policy in Illinois by focusing on the Illinois Solar for All program as a case study on the limitations of mapping for environmental justice and tracing the political processes that have shifted the scale of governance for renewable energy siting to the state level over time. Drawing on 23 semi-structured interviews, document analysis, and geospatial analysis, I explore how energy governance affects equity across changing landscapes and consider the implications of uneven governance on the future of energy politics in the Midwest. This research finds that uneven spatialization of energy politics in Illinois through institutionalization of environmental justice at the state level may create new and uneven landscapes in the energy transition. Text eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/120426 Copyright 2023 Shannon Anderson M.S. Thesis Natural Res & Env Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Natural Res & Env Sci