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Environmental justice activists expressed disappointment Thursday in the city’s response to a watchdog’s recommendations on the Hilco smokestack demolition.

Owners of a southern Illinois coal mine violated multiple state laws by dumping toxic foam deep underground in an unsuccessful attempt to extinguish a fire, according to a new lawsuit

A new lawsuit documents high levels of pollution in creeks and ditches near Foresight Energy's Sugar Camp mine in Franklin County, southwest of Chicago.

Nuclear power finds itself caught between cheaper sources of carbon-emitting energy and heavily subsidized clean power sources like wind and solar.

Nuclear power finds itself caught between cheaper sources of carbon-emitting energy and heavily subsidized clean power sources like wind and solar.

Nuclear power finds itself caught between cheaper sources of carbon-emitting energy and heavily subsidized clean power sources like wind and solar.

Buoyed by the recent passage of the ambitious Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is heading to the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland, to present Illinois as a global player in the emerging green economy.

Illinois became on Wednesday the first Midwest state to adopt a law that sets a roadmap to ban coal in the state, eliminate other fossil-fuel sources of electricity and provide only "clean energy," including nuclear, after Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act.

Published July 13, 2021 at 4:14 PM CDT Rici Hoffarth | St. Louis Public Radio / Illinois lawmakers are considering a clean energy proposal that would force almost all coal-fired plants in the state to close by 2035. This interview will be on “St. Louis on the Air” over the noon hour Wednesday. This story will be updated after the show. You can Among the most contentious points of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s latest clean energy proposal is a plan to phase out coal-burning p...

BRENDEN MOORE SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers are set to return to Springfield Tuesday to consider a massive energy bill that aims to move the state toward 100% clean power generation by 2050. Under the latest proposal, utility giant Exelon would receive nearly $700 million in ratepayer subsidies to keep three of its nuclear power plants open while the state’s coal-fired plants would be forced to shutter by 2035. Natural gas plants would be phased out by 2045. However,...