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Madison Holcomb
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Producer and Reporter, Illinois Public Media News
Champaign
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Biography
I am a journalist from the small town of Coal City, Illinois. I am currently a senior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying journalism. I have held positions at St. Louis Public Radio, Illinois Public Media News, WGN Radio, the Coal City Courant, WPGU News and The Daily Illini.
Environmental Science And Climate Change , Social Justice Issues , Politics , Police And Government Accountability
sports, the stock market
Content
Coal ash is polluting Illinois rivers. Environmentalists want the state to move faster to stop it | Illinois Public Media
By Madison Holcomb| WILL-TV (Urbana, IL) Verified DANVILLE — On a recent afternoon in early May, Danville resident Germaine Light leashed up her poodle Pippin to take a walk around Kickapoo State Park, along the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River. Light lives just a few miles from where a coal-fired power plant operated for over five decades until it closed in 2011. She said she has noticed the facility’s lingering effects on the river. “I would see trickles of bluish and purplish and greenish streamlets of water coming down the bank,” Light said.
Accidents and emergency calls mount at Archer Daniels Midland plants in Decatur in past year; Employee dies in rail accident, multiple employees injured in explosions
By Nour Longi, Madison Holcomb| cu-citizenaccess.org@ Listen to WILL’s coverage for interview audio and hear from the reporters on The 21st Show. Just months before he planned to retire, 66-year-old Robert Dautel was killed in an accident at the railyard just off of the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) west plant in Decatur, Illinois. On April 11, 2023, Dautel was in a locomotive operated remotely by a trainee.
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Illinois Public Media News