BY DYLAN T. LOVAN
The Associated Press

CENTERTOWN, Ky. — A five-minute drive from this community’s lone gas station leads to a gateway to untapped riches: A bed of coal twice the size of Lake Michigan.

Earth-movers are peeling back layers of…

BY EDMUND L. ANDREWS
New York Times

WASHINGTON — The country’s top regulator of commodity markets said Tuesday that the government should “seriously consider” strict limits on the trades of purely financial investors in the futures markets for oil, natural gas and…

St. Louis-based electric utility AmerenUE has taken plenty of public whippings for storm-related power outages in recent years. So it is noteworthy that the Public Service Commission staff had only good things to say about the utility’s response to the late-January ice…

Tom Carnahan

Tom Carnahan, the chief executive and founder of St. Louis-based Wind Capital Group, was named to the board of the American Wind Energy Association, the 1,900-member trade group representing the nation’s wind-power industry.

Carnahan, the son of late Gov. Mel…

Two years after joining AmerenUE to head up the utility’s public relations efforts, former KSDK-TV news anchor Karen Foss is being promoted to senior vice president at Ameren Corp.

Foss, 65, will oversee communications and brand management for St. Louis-based Ameren…

Ethanol producer POET LLC and Magellan Midstream Partners will study the feasibility of a dedicated ethanol pipeline (map) stretching 1,700 miles from the cornfields of Iowa to the East Coast.

The $3.5 billion pipeline would run through  the nation’s two largest corn-producing states, including Illinois, and on…

Peabody Energy Corp. named M. Frances Keeth, a former Royal Dutch Shell Plc executive vice president, as a new director, increasing the size of the board to 11.

Keeth was formerly CEO of Shell Chemicals Ltd. and would figure to play a…

Moody’s Investors Service called Ameren Corp.’s 39 percent dividend cut, announced late Friday, a “conservative, prudent and credit positive action that will conserve cash and support financial coverage metrics.” But the move wasn’t enough to merit a ratings upgrade. Moody’s still…

From President Barack Obama down, energy efficiency seems to be the topic du jour these days as we look for ways to cut down on energy use. Whatever stimulus bill emerges from Congress is certain to include billions of dollars for businesses and…