Protect Illinois’ air from corporate greed!

If fossil fuel interests & Governor Rauner get their way, there’ll be a lot more dangerous pollution in Illinois’ air!

Dynegy, the Texas-based corporation that owns the majority of the aging coal plants in Central and Southern Illinois is working behind closed doors with Rauner’s administration to rewrite State air pollution rules to allow them to double the amount of dangerous pollution they can spew into our air.

Dynegy’s doing whatever they can to protect their profits and shirk their responsibility to the public. They want a free pass to avoid installing life-saving pollution controls on coal plants from the 1950’s and 1960’s, and avoiding running their newer, cleaner plants.

Send your message now and demand state regulators to protect our air from corporate greed!

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Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and Dynegy’s proposal to amend the Multi Pollutant Standard (MPS) is unnessecary and would give Dynegy the option to increase air pollution (NOx and SO2) at certain individual Dynegy plants.  The proposal includes Baldwin, Coffeen, Duck Creek, Edwards, Havana, Hennepin, Joppa, and Newton coal fired power plants.  Any increase in pollution would place an undue public health burden on the communities surrounding the plants and the people who live there.

A high number of Dynegy’s plants are located in Environmental Justice communities so a potential increase in NOx and SO2 pollution from individual Dynegy plants presents Environmental Justice concerns. Both pose serious health risks, especially for vulnerable community members like infants and small children, the elderly, and asthmatics.

For these reasons, the Illinois Pollution Control Board should reject the regulatory changes that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and Dynegy are proposing.

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