With a few notable exceptions, Illinois appears well on its way to meeting the Biden administration’s proposed limits on climate-changing pollution emitted by power plants.
The biggest outlier is a coal-fired plant in southern Illinois owned by dozens of municipalities in Illinois and across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states.
Only seven other coal plants nationwide emitted more heat-trapping carbon dioxide last year than the 12.4 million tons released into the atmosphere by the Prairie State Generating Station — a sum equivalent to the tailpipe emissions from 2 million cars.
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