Midwest Generation, which employs about 1,000 people at six coal-fired electric generating plants in Illinois, may be forced into bankruptcy because of the cost of state-imposed deadlines that require it to reduce mercury emissions by 90 percent across its Illinois fleet by 2015 and gradually decrease other pollutants by 2019.
Three months ago, Midwest Generation executives announced they would shutter the Fisk and Crawford coal plants in Chicago in September. Midwest Generation also owns and operates the Powerton (Pekin), Joliet, Waukegan and Will County (Romeoville) power generation plants, which together with the Chicago plants provide electricity to nearly 5 million homes. More HERE
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