Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker voiced full-throated support late Friday to a new version of clean-energy legislation that tightens the screws on high-polluting, downstate coal power plants.
 
Under the proposal, carbon-emission reductions of 100 percent would be required at the Prairie State Energy Campus facility near St. Louis and a municipally-owned coal plant in Springfield by 2045, or they would face closure.
 
Additionally, those facilities would have to reduce their carbon footprints by 45 percent by 2035.
 
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