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Vistra closing four coal-powered plants
Sen. Manar, environmentalists charge ‘clean’ plants are being closed to leave ‘dirty’ ones operating
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Ted Cox August 21, 2019 Vistra Energy , Dynegy , Andy Manar , Curt Morgan , IEPA , Illinois Pollution Control Board , Illinois Coal , Illinois Coal Plants , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Jack Darin , Illinois Environmental Council , Colleen Smith
Sierra Club opposes coal-ash water dump
Dynegy’s Wood River power plant in East Alton seeks permit for process environmentalists call ‘cap and run’
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Ted Cox April 22, 2019 Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Sierra Club , Piasa Palisades Sierra Club , Dynegy , Vistra Energy , Wood River Power Plant , Coal Ash , IEPA , Earthjustice , Prairie Rivers Network , Environmental Integrity Project , EPA , Toni Oplt , Metro East Green Alliance , Illinois Environment , Illinois Water
State sets date for coal regulations
Illinois Pollution Control Board goes back to square one with a late-January public hearing on emissions at coal-fired power plants
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Pollution panel splits difference on coal-plant rules
The Illinois Pollution Control Board made concessions to environmentalists on clean-air standards and sent the compromise back to the public to reconsider it
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Ted Cox October 4, 2018 Bruce Rauner , J.B. Pritzker , Alec Messina , IEPA , Sierra Club , Piasa Palisades Sierra Club , Illinois Sierra Club , Illinois Pollution Control Board , Illinois Pollution , Dynegy , Vistra Energy , Union of Concerned Scientists , Better Government Association , Brett Chase , Virginia Woulfe-Belle
Rauner pledges VW settlement to improve air quality
The first $20 million will go to Chicago mass transit, but electric school buses and statewide grants will follow
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Ted Cox August 29, 2018 Bruce Rauner , Illinois EPA , IEPA , Alec Messina , Jen Walling , Illinois Environmental Council , Dynegy , VW Settlement , Illinois Pollution , Electric School Buses , Illinois Chamber of Commerce , Benjamin Brockschmidt
Environmental equilibrium
Alton's Sierra Club balances ecology with the business climate
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