Illinois River wetlands to benefit from ethanol plant pollution settlement

The director of water policy at the Prairie Rivers Network says an eight-year legal fight over pollution from a major ethanol refinery on the Illinois River has ended. Robert Hirschfeld says Alto Pekin, LLC (formerly Pacific Ethanol Pekin) has agreed to pay a $75,000 civil penalty and fund a $125,000 wetland restoration project on the […]

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