Ah Illinois Democrats, putting politics ahead of commonsense policies that are both good for the environment AND  taxpayers. It’s thinking along those lines that lets folks like this become leaders at the national level.  Support the RSLC today to elect more state and local leaders who will bring commonsense to your state and local government.  From the Herald & Review:

Illinois needs a lot of electricity.

The state also has a lot of coal to burn.

Nevertheless, building a coal power plant in Illinois has proven difficult over the past several years as increasing pollution controls and ballooning construction budgets have hampered several projects across the state.

In Taylorville, a massive project is on hold awaiting hard-to-find support from state lawmakers.

In Mattoon, the federal government decided to all but scrap an experimental coal plant there that would have pumped pollution underground.

And in Will County, a Joliet-area coal plant has been abandoned.

Those developments continue to frustrate the state’s coal industry. Illinois is rich in coal reserves, but the heavily polluting fuel has fallen out of favor at a time when environmental controls are strict.

The Taylorville and Mattoon projects sought to burn coal more cleanly, but, at least in the case of the proposed Taylorville Energy Center, lawmakers’ skepticism of the new technology played at least some role in the project being stalled.

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