70 ILCS 3615/2.10: Protection of the environment.

(a) The Authority shall take all feasible and prudent steps to minimize environmental disruption and pollution arising from its activities and from public transportation activities of Transportation Agencies acting under purchase of service or grant agreements. In carrying out its purposes and powers under this Act, the Authority shall seek to reduce environmental disruption and pollution arising from all forms of transportation of persons within the metropolitan region. The Authority shall employ persons with skills and responsibilities for determining how to minimize such disruption and pollution.

(b) In recognition of the fact that the transportation sector accounts for approximately one-third of the greenhouse gases generated in the State and that public transportation moves people with fewer emissions than other motorized modes of transportation, the Authority shall work cooperatively with the Department of Transportation, the Illinois State Toll Highway, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, and other units of government in the region to assist them in using investments in public transportation facilities and operations as a tool to help them meet their greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. To the maximum extent allowed by law, the Authority is eligible to receive funding and other assistance from local, state, and federal sources so the Authority can assist in using improved and expanded public transportation in the metropolitan region to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution generated by the transportation sector.