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Illinois ruling points at coal plants’ unsteady future

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Illinois ruling points at coal plants’ unsteady future

CHICAGO — The Illinois Pollution Control Board will decide this week whether to give a Houston company extra time to install pollution controls at five Illinois coal-fired power plants that it doesn’t even own yet, a scenario that underscores the uncertainty facing an industry squeezed by environmental regulations and competition from natural gas.

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