Sierra Club Illinois Director Jack Darin said Illinois and the federal government have two different, conflicting energy ...

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 burner, built during ...

It might seem like an odd time to take a coal company public. But despite greater competition from natural gas, a growing public outcry over coal pollution and a recent federal proposal that would ...

“Thankfully, we are no longer breathing coal being burned,” said Flores, a co-chair of Clean Power Lake County, or CPLC, an environmental justice organization serving the mostly Latino suburb about 40 ...

Burlington, MA, Dec. 19, 2002 — Governor George H. Ryan announced recently the issuance of a construction permit for the first new mine-mouth coal-fired electric plant in Illinois in more than three ...

It’s Thursday, July 14, and Illinois coal plants are going solar. In Illinois, a renewable energy procurement plan is turning 11 retired coal-fired power plants into clean electricity powerhouses.

There once was a historical marker along Route 127 near the Big Muddy Bridge. About a hundred yards west of the marker there was an outcrop of coal which became the historic site of the first coal in ...

ELKHART, Ill. (AP) — Owners of a central Illinois coal mine are seeking a zoning change to allow the expansion of a coal-waste storage facility. The Viper Mine proposal goes before Logan County zoning ...

ST. LOUIS -- The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, often criticized as advocating for the coal industry, announced a series of reforms last week meant to help repair the agency's image and ...

PINCKNEYVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- Years after most coal mines left this patch of southern Illinois, leaving thousands out of work, some people here are seeing signs that what was once the region's main ...

The battle amid a coal strike in Macoupin County is regarded as a pivotal moment in national labor history and the Illinois ...