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Battery manufacturing plant coming to Illinois

MANTENO (Capitol News Illinois) -- A new battery manufacturing plant is set to open in northern Illinois next year after the state offered more than $330 million in tax incentives to make it happen. Gotion, a Chinese battery manufacturing and development company, announced on Friday that it will build a lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Manteno, about 50 miles south of Chicago. The roughly $2 billion project is set to create 2,600 jobs and begin production in 2024. The plant […]

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Will the EPA mercury rule change spur attacks on other clean air protections?

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois News Connection/Public News Service) -- Even as the country battles a respiratory pandemic, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has moved to weaken an air pollution standard. The EPA finalized changes Thursday to the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS). It is the first-ever national limits on emissions of mercury and other air pollutants from coal-fired power plants. Browner: 'EPA is only adjusting cost-benefit calculations' Carol Browner is the board chair at the League of Conservation Voters and former […]

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