Others benefiting from Trump’s exemptions include NRG’s Powerton coal plant near Pekin in Tazewell County, scheduled to close in 2028, and several owned by Southern Company and the Tennessee ...

Environmental groups are suing to overturn President Donald Trump’s decision to give almost 70 coal-fired power plants a two-year exemption on compliance with strengthened EPA air toxics ...

Sites including at least 15 coal plants sought exemptions from environmental rules using a new Trump administration system to fast-track requests, documents show.

Cleco and Entergy officials said their plants receiving the exemptions will stop using coal within five years: by October 2028 for Cleco's unit in the Brame Energy Center and by 2030 for all of ...

Illinois coal plants get Trump exemptions from Biden-era rule limiting mercury, other toxic air pollution Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune May 26, 2025 1 of 2 Buy Now ...

CHICAGO — 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 ...