A recent EPA proposal could finally ensure safeguards for the hundreds of unprotected, unregulated coal ash sites across the country.

This settlement between the State of Illinois and Dynegy Midwest Generation requires Dynegy to clean up coal ash and resolve violations of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act at the former Vermilion Power Station.

Consent order requires Dynegy Midwest Generation to move coal ash to a new on-site landfill to protect the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River

Environmental groups cautiously optimistic, remain vigilant

Request for Oral Argument and Complaint Brief

Vermilion Coal Ash Case – Dynegy Response Brief

Vermilion Coal Ash Case — Earthjustice Reply Brief in response to Dynegy Brief

Dynegy, through its disposal and storage of coal ash at the Vermilion Power Station, has discharged contaminants into the environment and the Middle Fork and thereby caused, and continues to cause, water pollution in violation of 415 ILCS 5/12(a).

Recent video documents continued coal ash contamination of Illinois’ only National Scenic River

Plaintiff Prairie Rivers Network brings this citizen enforcement action against Defendant Dynegy Midwest Generation, LLC, for violations of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1311 and 1342, at the Vermilion Power Station in Vermilion County, Illinois.

Dynegy’s coal ash pits polluting Middle Fork of the Vermilion River

The Vermilion Power Station is a retired coal-fired power plant located approximately five miles north of the village of Oakwood, Illinois. The plant sits on the west bank of the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River (“Middle Fork”), in a 17-mile section designated as Illinois’ only National Scenic River and first State Scenic River. From the mid-1950s until 2011, the plant burned coal and generated millions of tons of coal combustion residuals (“coal ash”).