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Posts tagged Vistra Energy
CEJA pushed to back burner by COVID
But issues are connected, especially on equity, say IEC’s Walling, Sen. Castro
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Ted Cox August 26, 2020 Clean Energy Jobs Act , Clean Energy Jobs , CEJA , Cristina Castro , Coronavirus , Illinois Coronavirus , COVID-19 , Illinois COVID-19 , Chicago Area Public Affairs Group , Jen Walling , Illinois Environmental Council , J.B. Pritzker , Path to 100 , Future Energy Jobs Act , Vistra Energy , ComEd , Exelon , Illinois Nuclear Energy , Illinois Solar Energy , Illinois Wind Energy , COVID-19 Disparities
Renewable energy to outpace coal this year
But COVID-19 relief funding has gone disproportionately to oil, mining businesses
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Clean Energy Jobs Act heads into smoke-filled veto session
Legislators, activists say it smooths path from fossil fuels to solar, wind
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Ted Cox October 23, 2019 Clean Energy Jobs Act , CEJA , Scott Bennett , J.B. Pritzker , Tracy Fox , Central Illinois Healthy Community Alliance , Illinois People's Action , Vistra Energy , Peabody Mining , Renner Barsella , Sierra Club Beyond Coal , Sierra Club , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Vermillion River , Vermillion River Coal Ash , Illinois Coal Ash , Rita Mayfield , Midwest Generation , Juliana Pino , Little Village Environmental Justice Organization , Illinois Youth Climate Strike
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
Pollution panel raps coal contamination
Illinois Pollution Control Board rules coal plants contaminated water in Waukegan, Pekin, Joliet, Will County
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Ted Cox June 27, 2019 Illinois Coal Plants , Illinois Coal , NRG Energy , Midwest Generation , Illinois Pollution Control Board , IEPA , Sierra Club , Sierra Club Beyond Coal , Environmental Law & Policy Center , Prairie Rivers Network , Citizens Against Ruining the Environment , Donald Trump , J.B. Pritzker , Bruce Rauner , Vistra Energy , Dulce Ortiz , Ellen Rendulich , Faith Bugel , Jeffrey Hammons , Andrew Rehn , David Knox
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