ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Prairie State Energy Campus today announced that the regulatory and legal review process for its air permit has successfully concluded, making the permit final and unappealable. The process included affirmation by the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court, the U.S.

LIVELY GROVE, Ill., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Prairie State Energy Campus today celebrated groundbreaking for its 1,600 megawatt supercritical coal-fueled power plant that will be supplied by an adjacent mine.

By TIM LANDIS BUSINESS EDITOR Peabody Energy Co. expects to have about 2,000 construction workers on the job by this time in 2009 after a federal court upheld company plans for a $2.9 billion power plant and energy campus in southern Illinois.

JACKSON, Mich., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CMS Enterprises, a subsidiary of CMS Energy, announced today that it has signed agreements with Peabody Energy to co-develop the Prairie State Energy Campus, a 1,600-megawatt power plant and coal mine in southern Illinois.