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Obama EPA puts 13 Illinois coal plants on verge of closure — 2000 jobs to disappear
"Workers at the state’s coal-fired power plants are all worried about the same thing: whether they will lose their jobs.
Owners of the plants have been squeezed by regulations forcing expensive pollution control upgrades at the same time cheaper sources of fuel have rendered the plants unprofitable. In the next two years, legal decisions affecting roughly two-thirds of the state’s coal-fired power plants are expected to determine whether those plants have any future…"