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

Coal power plants have sought to make exceptions for their permits and have effectively stalled the permit process until the Illinois Pollution Control Board is able to resolve the requests.

Provided Share After more than a decade of controversy, a move to force the closing of a Southern Illinois ... s last new coal plants, one that became a major source of air pollution.

But today, reveling echoed from Illinois’ coal country to Capitol Hill ... as well as an estimated $15 million in sales tax exemptions on materials and equipment through local enterprise ...

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois environmental group filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the owner of a shuttered power plant where contaminants from old coal ash ponds are seeping into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“People in Illinois and other Great Lakes states shouldn’t have the suffer the pollution consequences ... from Trump’s exemptions include NRG’s Powerton coal plant near Pekin in Tazewell ...