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MADISON — Utilities will be required to reduce mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants by 90 percent by 2015 or by the same amount by 2021 if they agree to more stringent standards for other pollutants, after the State Legislature's Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules failed to object to the measure today.

Utility admits to “uncertainties with the biomass market” MADISON —  After publicly stating its Marshalltown, Iowa coal plant could burn 10 percent biomass, staff for Alliant Energy now question the feasibility of burning the renewable fuel in the recently approved plant according to testimony submitted in front of the Iowa Utilities Board earlier this month.

Focus now shifts to restoring the Midwest’s most valuable natural resource WASHINGTON, D.C. — Less than five months after Wisconsin passed the Great Lakes Compact, the U.S.