September 16, 2019
Vistra Energy Corp. has struck a deal to close an Illinois coal-fired power plant that environmental groups say violates air quality standards and will contribute $8.6 million for community projects including job training, environmental projects and health initiatives, according to the groups.
January 16, 2019
An Illinois federal judge told a Vistra Energy Corp.-owned coal-fired power plant it should avoid "arguing around the edges" of his earlier finding that its emissions violated the Clean Air Act, but declined to immediately rule in favor of environmental groups looking to hold it accountable for recent violations.
November 02, 2018
An Illinois federal court refused to exclude the testimony of an expert witness for environmental groups in a fight over how to remedy violations of the Clean Air Act at a coal-fired power plant in Illinois, saying there was no fundamental flaw in the expert's methodology that made it inadmissible.
August 23, 2016
A coal-fired power plant near Peoria, Illinois, violated the Clean Air Act with its thousands of instances of emissions over allowable opacity limits during a six-year period, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, siding with the Natural Resources Defense Counsel and the Sierra Club.