PEKIN — After an eight-year legal battle over pollution, a major ethanol refinery has received a final consent order requiring it to pay a $75,000 civil penalty and fund a $125,000 wetland restoration project on the Illinois River floodplain. The Illinois Attorney General’s Office filed the case against Pacific Pekin Ethanol LLC — now known as Alto Pekin LLC — in January 2018 at the request of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. The EP…
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