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 plants by 2035. That would include closing down Prairie State Generating Station, a massive coal plant in the state’s southwest corner. Hannah Meisel, a government and politics editor at NPR Illinois,