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Illinois has new regulations on how power plants can close coal ash ponds that contain toxic waste. Missouri officials also are addressing coal ash ponds like this one at the Meramec Energy Center in St. Louis County.
Illinois now has broad regulations for how power companies may close coal ash ponds.
The rules the Illinois Pollution Control Board adopted Thursday determine how to close more than 70 ash ponds across the state that contain toxic waste.
“These ponds have to close, they’re not safe,” said Andrew Rehn, a civil engineer at Prairie Rivers Network, an organization that works on pollution issues in Illinois.
Victory: The final rule ensures a safer, healthier future for Illinoisans
Contacts
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
by Saifullah Bashir
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A gazette notification issued on 25th March 2021, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) constituted a committee that has 14 members including a Chairperson and a Member Secretary. However, there is no Governmental or Non-Governmental member from Kashmir these 14.
The J&K Pollution Control Committee (JKPCC) members include Administrative Secretaries of Industries, Housing and Urban Development; Health & Medical Education; Transport Departments and Additional Secretary Forest and Environment is also a member of the committee.
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Andy Colthorpe
A proposed large-scale battery storage project in Morro Bay, California that Vistra Energy is planning to build. Image: Vistra.
US power generation holding company Vistra has renewed its call for legislation designed to assist the transition from coal to renewable energy in the US state of Illinois.
The call for the introduction of the Illinois Coal to Solar and Energy Storage Act comes as Vistra announced the early closure of the 1GW Joppa Power Plant operated by one of its subsidiaries. The plant had been scheduled for closure in 2025, but that has been brought forward to 1 September 2022.