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 ...

CHICAGO -- Mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants is increasing in Illinois -- despite a decline in such pollution nationwide, according to an analysis of federal data on industrial ...

Burning coal also creates lung-damaging smog and emits brain-damaging mercury and soot pollution ... the Southern Illinois Power Cooperative, confirmed they did not ask Trump for exemptions.

Re: “Trump exempts nearly 70 coal plants from Biden-era rule on mercury and other toxic air pollution,” Nation ... by scientists at the University of Illinois, Chicago and National Institute ...

"People in Illinois and other Great Lakes states shouldn't have to suffer the pollution consequences ... Others benefiting from Trump's exemptions include NRG's Powerton coal plant near Pekin ...

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 ...

Illinois coal plants get Trump exemptions from Biden-era rule limiting mercury, other toxic air pollution Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune Mon, May 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC ...