Trump throws coal plants a lifeline, but Illinois among states showing no signs of turning back
President Donald Trump's plan to gut climate pollution standards for power plants is a lifeline to the dwindling American coal industry, but Illinois and many other states already are shifting to cleaner sources of energy and show no signs of turning back.
The question is whether the proposal Trump unveiled Tuesday to dramatically weaken limits on heat-trapping carbon dioxide will allow aging coal-fired power plants to keep running longer than expected, slowing the transition to wind, solar and other forms of clean energy that increasingly are less expensive than coal.
Under the Trump rewrite of President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, states would
