If the Illinois Climate and Equitable Jobs Act survives Trump’s promised legal challenge, Vistra and NRG plants would need to ...

Goree, 72, lives in Beckville, a town of fewer than 800 people, just miles from the Martin Lake coal plant, a 2.4-gigawatt ...

Donation Options Search Search Search In this July 27, 2018, file photo, the Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted ... Dakotas down to Texas, and in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri ...

Two downstate coal plant operators, the Prairie State Generating Co. and the Southern Illinois Power Cooperative, confirmed they did not ask Trump for exemptions. A big pile of coal sits on the ...

asking the Illinois EPA to draft an operating permit for Prairie State or deny it. In January, the coal plant submitted an update to its application, and Prairie State is still awaiting a decision ...

Environmentalists and others say the coal plant exemptions allow the continued release of pollutants that cause illness and death — and could be part of broader plan to eliminate the new ...

In an attempt to revive the nation’s coal industry, President Donald Trump encouraged companies to apply for exemptions from ...

CHICAGO — For nearly four decades, owners of the Baldwin power plant in southern Illinois managed to avoid the most stringent requirements of the federal Clean Air Act. The gargantuan coal ...

Others benefiting from Trump’s exemptions include NRG’s Powerton ... It is unclear whether the Illinois coal plant owners will follow suit. Vistra and NRG told the Chicago Tribune they plan ...