Prairie State Generation coal-fired plant poses water threats as well as creating greenhouse gas.
12/1/21 - As stated in comments to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency filed last week by me and Andrew Rehn on behalf of Sierra Club and Prairie Rules Network in comments on a draft NPDES permit for this massive facility which discharges into the Kaskaskia River, our initial review of the draft notice and the data currently available to us indicates that the permit and the IEPA consideration of the permit is defective in at least the following respects: The limits i
Fire in the Mine - PFAS in the water
12/1/21 - Another project has been to try to stop Sugar Camp Energy (Murray Energy) from dumping toxic foam in an effort to put out a fire in its mine. This is the latest of a long series of violations of federal and state law by these operators. See https://manage.wix.com/dashboard/50f40d07-4213-4207-a588-b893624f36f0/blog/61a7f946d5c39a0016980cdd/edit and https://manage.wix.com/dashboard/50f40d07-4213-4207-a588-b893624f36f0/blog/61a7f946d5c39a0016980cdd/edit.