Ruling points at coal plants’ unsteady future

CHICAGO — The Illinois Pollution Control Board will decide this week whether to give a Houston company extra time to install pollution controls at five Illinois coal-fired power plants that it doesn’t even own yet, a scenario that underscores the uncertainty facing an industry squeezed by environmental regulations and competition from natural gas.

Here’s the link to the story by the Associated Press in the Southern Illinoisan.

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