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

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

“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 ...

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 Sun, May 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC ...

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 ...

The rules, updated by the Biden administration last year, would have required continuous monitoring and tighter pollution limits, especially for plants that burn lignite coal, a particularly dirty ...

The Illinois Supreme Court has teed up a significant insurance question: Does a standard pollution exclusion bar coverage when the alleged “pollution” was not considered to be pollution when ...

In March, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin invited industrial polluters — such as coal-fired ... hazardous air pollution — to apply for two-year exemptions from nine ...