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Victory: The final rule ensures a safer, healthier future for Illinoisans
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Paul Dailing, Environmental Law & Policy Center, (312) 771-1979, pdailing@elpc.org
Andrew Rehn, Prairie Rivers Network, (708) 305-6181, arehn@prairierivers.org
Adil Trehan, Sierra Club, (202) 630-7275, adil.trehan@sierraclub.org Springfield, IL â
The Illinois Pollution Control Boardâs finalization of coal ash regulations makes significant strides to rectify coal s toxic footprint in Illinois. The rules create a comprehensive framework for the detection and clean up of coal ash contamination of groundwater â the first in the stateâs history to specifically address this pollution. Not only do the new rules create a new precedent for cleaning up coal ash and restoring the environment, they make necessary improvements to public participation and environmental justice. In finalizing these rules, the Board rejected utility demands to exclude cert
Des Moines Register
The proportion of Iowa s energy coming from wind surged to nearly 60% last year, the most in the nation, as a growing number of turbines came online, U.S. Energy Information Administration data show.
Despite the global pandemic and recession, Iowa utilities and developers added about 540 turbines last year, pushing the total close to 5,900, the American Clean Power Association says.
Iowa s total operating capacity climbed to 11,660 megawatts in 2020, up 13% from 2019, when 44% of Iowa s net energy generation already a nation-leading proportion came from wind, the federal data show. The 2020 proportion was 59.6%.
Wind generation is an even greater source of power in some parts of the state, including much of the Des Moines metro. MidAmerican Energy, Iowa s largest power provider, told the Des Moines Register that wind supplied more than 80% of its energy, which is up substantially from 2019 at 61% and is far ahead of most investor-owned utility comp
DeWine picks ex-judge as new Ohio utility commission chair
By MARK GILLISPIE and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINSMarch 19, 2021 GMT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A former county judge was selected Friday by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine as the next chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Jenifer French will succeed Sam Randazzo, who resigned as the state’s top utility regulator in November days after FBI agents searched his Columbus townhome and Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. revealed company top executives had paid him $4.3 to end a consulting contract.
FirstEnergy in U.S. Securities Exchange filings indicated the payment made a month before DeWine selected him as utilities commission chair was for future favors at the agency. Randazzo previously declined to comment about the payment.