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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — Shunning climate-changing fossil fuels is turning out to be more difficult than promised in Illinois. Two weeks after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law billed as the nation’s most aggressive mandate for clean energy, the Chicago Democrat’s administration tentatively approved a major new source of heat-trapping pollution. A draft state permit for a new natural gas power plant, planned for a small town south of Springfield, would allow the proposed Lincoln Land Energy Center to emit more carbon dioxide than 800,000 automobiles every year. Combined with CO2 emitted by two other gas plants…