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Columbia power plant opts for โ€œclean closureโ€

While Columbia has been proactive about cleaning up its coal ash โ€” cinders that it used to spread on icy and snowy streets in the winter โ€” it still gets 70 percent to 80 percent of its energyfrom coal-fired power plants in the Midwest, and most of that comes from the Sikeston Power Plant in southeast Missouri and the Prairie State Energy Campus in Illinois.