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  Appeals court: IL doesn’t usurp feds’ power by making coal, gas burners subsidize Illinois nuke plants

  By Dan Churney | Monday, Sep 17, 2018 @ 11:33am

  A federal appellate court has affirmed a Chicago federal judge’s ruling that switched off suits by a group of electricity producers and Chicago-area power consumers, which sought to invalidate a state law requiring coal and gas burning electricity companies buy credits to prop up two failing Exelon nuclear plants, saying the law doesn’t infringe on federal regulatory prerogatives.

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