Clean air plan hailed in Illinois

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: April 7, 1990| Author: | Copyright information

WASHINGTON The Illinois coal industry and Downstate utilities were heartened Friday by the new version of clean air legislation approved by a House committee.

While not endorsing the latest plan, spokesmen for the Illinois concerns said the House Energy and Commerce Committee seems to have lightened the economic burden on coal-burning utilities and the high-sulfur coal industry they help maintain.

Illinois' senators, Paul Simon and Alan J. Dixon, both Democrats, opposed clean air legislation passed earlier this week in the Senate partly because they thought its provision to curb acid ...

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