In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the Sierra Club alleges that the Illinois EPA never granted nor denied Prairie State’s application for an operations permit under the Clean Air Act, leaving it to operate illegally for most of the last decade.

Author Archives: Kari Lydersen
Kari has written for the Energy News Network since January 2011. She is an author and journalist who worked for the Washington Post's Midwest bureau from 1997 through 2009. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago Reader and other publications. Based in Chicago, Kari covers Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana as well as environmental justice topics.