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Category: Energy

Posted inAgribusiness, Climate Change, Energy, Environment

Despite hundreds of millions in tax dollars, ADM’s carbon capture program still hasn’t met promised goals

by Johnathan Hettinger, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting November 19, 2020November 30, 2020

Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest agribusinesses, has yet to make good on its promise to capture a million tons of carbon a year at its Decature, Illinois, facility.

Posted inAgribusiness, Energy, Government

EPA’s second attempt to fix Renewable Fuel Standard loophole draws criticism

by Christopher Walljasper October 22, 2019January 23, 2023
Andrew Rehn of the Prairie Rivers Network presents the report 'Cap and Run: Toxic Coal Ash Left Behind by Big Polluters Threatens Illinois Water' at a news conference at the Illinois state capitol building in Springfield
Posted inEnergy, Environment, Government

Report shows toxic contamination at coal ash sites throughout Illinois

by Jack Brighton November 30, 2018January 23, 2023
Toxic coal ash in the Emory River after the TVA spill
Posted inEnergy, Environment

The impact of a coal ash spill on the Middle Fork

by Jack Brighton September 18, 2018January 23, 2023
A diagram of the Vermilion Power Station coal ash ponds and the Middle Fork River
Posted inEnergy, Environment

The costs of closing a coal ash waste site

by Jack Brighton September 18, 2018January 23, 2023
A large pile of coal waste
Posted inEnergy, Environment

The coal ash problem

by Jack Brighton September 18, 2018January 23, 2023
Coal ash spilling into a river
Posted inEnergy, Environment

Coal ash spills demonstrate hazard

by Jack Brighton September 18, 2018January 23, 2023
The U.S. EPA building in Washington DC
Posted inEnergy, Environment

Coal Ash: A hash of regulation

by Jack Brighton September 18, 2018January 23, 2023
Since 1955 the Vermilion Power Plant has been storing toxic coal ash in three ponds next to the Middle Fork Vermilion River near Oakwood, Illinois
Posted inEnergy, Environment, Original Investigation

Loose regulations allow coal ash to threaten river

by Jack Brighton September 6, 2018January 23, 2023
People canoeing on a river
Posted inEnergy, Environment

Protecting the Middle Fork from coal ash: How long is ‘perpetuity?’

by Jack Brighton September 5, 2018January 23, 2023

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