{"id":231297,"date":"2025-09-16T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231297\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:02:13","slug":"comed-deploying-goats-to-help-protect-chicago-area-power-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231297\/","title":{"rendered":"ComEd deploying goats to help protect Chicago-area power lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  ComEd deploying goats to help protect power lines <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0842c63c05148f73f925c445dfb58341.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/comed-deploying-goats-to-help-protect-power-lines\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          ComEd deploying goats to help protect power lines<\/p>\n<p>          00:27<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>ComEd is deploying a team of goats to clear overgrown vegetation beneath power lines.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the goat teams will make a special appearance at Pioneer Court on Michigan Avenue from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the fifth season of ComEd&#8217;s goat vegetation management program, which has helped clear almost five acres of brush to support power for customers across Northern Illinois. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As ComEd officials said in a written release, &#8220;They&#8217;re BAAAAAACK<strong>!&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since 2019, ComEd has used more than 200 goats to help avoid outages and service disruptions. They clear the brush in hard-to-reach areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/elyssa-kaufman\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elyssa  Kaufman<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Elyssa is a digital news producer for CBS Chicago. She covers breaking news and manages the station&#8217;s social media presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ComEd deploying goats to help protect power lines ComEd deploying goats to help protect power lines 00:27 ComEd&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":231298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,59143,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-231297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-comed","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115213876949691200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}