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Wildlife as big as bison and as small as quail share thousands of prairie acres with wildflowers and tall native grass at Prairie State Park in southwestern Missouri. The 4,000-acre state park ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has agreed with a branch of the Labor Department in finding that Prairie State Generation must show that the U.S. Mine Safety and Health ...

A million dollars will go a long way for Prairie State’s dental hygiene program. U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly presented a $1 million check from federal community project funding to assist the dental school’s ...

The latest draft of an Illinois energy regulatory overhaul bill calls for closing Prairie State Energy Campus and other coal-fired plants within 14 years, but negotiations on the proposal were ...

This article is the result of a partnership between Inside Climate News and the Chicago Sun-Times. After more than a decade of controversy, a move to force the closing of a Southern Illinois coal ...

ON the head-waters of the Wabash, near Lake Erie, we first, meet with those grassy plains to which the early French explorers of the West gave the name of Prairies. In Southern Michigan, they become ...

Unless a coal-fired power plant in southwestern Illinois manages to make dramatic reductions in its carbon emissions, it will be forced to close within the next 23 years. Kevin O'Brien, director of ...