, the wealthy businessman and heir to the Hyatt hotel chain fortune touted his backing of the Paris Climate Accord and vowed to increase state investments in battery technology. Pritzker, moreover, remarked on his support for a little-known climate initiative in Chicago.
“I think it’s an insult to Illinois taxpayers,” Richard Painter, a University of Minnesota law professor who was chiefGov. J.B. Pritzker takes questions from reporters after signing the 2025 budget in Chicago on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. , “One of the Rebuild Illinois capital program recipients is none other than Clean Energy Trust portfolio company NuMat Technologies. We applaud Governor J.B.
Francetic is board chairwoman of Evergreen Climate Innovations, according to the group’s tax forms filed in November 2023.a $250,000 federal grant in 2014 from the Commerce Department, funding documents show. During that time, the agency’s top official was Penny Pritzker, the sister of J.B. Pritzker.