While Illinois phases out coal, clean energy jobs hold promise—both for displaced coal workers, and those harmed by the fossil fuel economy. Matt Reuscher, left, became a solar electrician after ...

As evidence of coal's importance to the economy and culture of Southern Illinois in particular, the first mining union, the American Miners' Association, began in West Belleville in 1861.

NRG Energy Inc. is proposing a measure in Illinois that would compensate the company for retiring coal plants or converting them to natural gas as a way to help the state meet climate goals laid ...

A dump truck empties its load at Hamilton County Coal, near Dahlgren, Ill., in January 2017. The mine added 30 new jobs in the month prior, amid an uptick in coal markets.

Illinois will take another step away from coal by the end of the year when a Texas company shutters four downstate power plants that burn the lung-damaging, climate-changing fossil fuel. But under ...

It cost $16.37 a ton in 2008 to ship Wyoming coal by rail to Illinois, but $22.08 a ton in 2014, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That exceeded ...

A seam of coal is illuminated by headlights at Foresight Energy LLC's Sugar Camp coal mine in Benton, Illinois, U.S., on Monday, June 21, 2010.

Two of NRG's three northern Illinois plants are coal-fired. They are in Waukegan and Romeoville. The company converted a third, in Joliet, to cleaner-burning natural gas two years ago.

Politics & Government Southern Illinois lawmakers helped kill energy bill that would force coal plant closure By Kelsey Landis Updated October 22, 2021 2:46 PM READ MORE ...

Republican members of Congress from Illinois have denounced the Obama administration’s energy and environmental policies for the planned closures of coal-fired power plants in the southern part ...