There are six nuclear stations in Illinois, two of which—Clinton and Quad Cities—are supported by the 2016 Future Energy Jobs Act, which compensates them for their clean energy attributes, thereby preventing their premature closure.  Exelon owns the four remaining nuclear stations—Byron, Dresden, Braidwood and LaSalle—which do not receive support from that Act.  Various studies disagree whether Dresden is economically viable.  However, it is clear if Dresden were to close, Illinois citizens would pay dearly through increased fossil fuel pollution and health impacts, greenhouse gas emissions, higher energy costs, almost a thousand jobs lost, loss of local tax revenue, and the billions to build new replacement clean energy resources and transmission lines.  The smart more for Illinois and the U.S. is to pay to keep Dresden operational in the short run and work to correct the flawed market structures which fail to compensate nuclear power plants for the value they bring to our electricity system.  On May 24th, 2021, we sent this letter to Illinois legislators urging them to approve the Climate Union Jobs Act, which seeks to keep all Illinois nuclear facilities open.