Southern Illinois University and state officials will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 18, to discuss the announcement scheduled for earlier in the day regarding the location of the FutureGen project. Joining SIU President Glenn Poshard at Stone Center on the SIUC campus will be state Rep. Dan Reitz, D-Sparta, who chairs the Illinois Clean Coal Review Board, and John S. Mead, director of SIUC's Coal Extraction and Utilization Research Center. Reporters, photographers and news crews are welcome to attend.
