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Mattoon Hopes Old FutureGen Site Has a Future
MATTOON, Ill. (AP) -- The economic developers who brought the FutureGen project to Mattoon now say they hope to lure a green energy company to the site once destined for the clean-coal project.

Angela Griffin is president of the Coles Together economic development agency in Coles County. She told the Mattoon Journal-Gazette that several companies have toured the site outside of town.

The companies working with the federal government to build the FutureGen project returned the land to the economic development group earlier this month.

Mattoon was to have been home to a futuristic new power plant. But the U.S. Department of Energy decided earlier this year to rework an existing plant across the state. Mattoon then decided to drop out of FutureGen.

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