EcoWatch: Whether she runs for governor or not, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan would need nine lives to bring the state`s notoriously broken regulatory system into compliance with the nation`s most reckless coal industry.
With state coal production soaring against national trends, Illinois cemented its reputation as the worst rogue state for coal operations last Friday, when the rubber-stamping operations of the state`s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a pollutant discharge permit to...