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Illinois Coal Ash Rule Will Clean Up Coal's Dirty Legacy


Victory: The final rule ensures a safer, healthier future for Illinoisans
Contacts
Paul Dailing, Environmental Law & Policy Center, (312) 771-1979, [email protected]
Andrew Rehn, Prairie Rivers Network, (708) 305-6181, [email protected]
Adil Trehan, Sierra Club, (202) 630-7275, [email protected]
Springfield, IL —
The Illinois Pollution Control Board’s 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 — the first in the state’s 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 de ....

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Environmental Groups: State's Coal Ash Proposal a Good Start


Environmental Groups: State’s Coal Ash Proposal a Good Start
Proposed changes to Illinois Coal Ash Rule incorporate groups’ input on monitoring, public participation, environmental justice
Contacts
Paul Dailing, Environmental Law & Policy Center, (312) 771-1979
Andrew Rehn, Prairie Rivers Network, (708) 305-6181
Chicago, IL —
The Illinois Pollution Control Board’s February 5th revisions to coal ash regulations proposed by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) make progress towards rectifying coal s dirty legacy in Illinois, but more can be done, said several environmental groups. 
Coal ash, the waste from burning coal, has contaminated groundwater in Illinois around both active and closed coal plants with arsenic, boron, sulfate, and other chemicals. A 2018 report by Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice, Prairie Rivers Network, and Sierra Club found widespread pollution i ....

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