General Motors Corp. plans to cut 38 Missouri dealerships and 66 Illinois ones from its ranks, according to a list released today by a U.S. House subcommittee. It did not identify the names of individual dealerships.

The list gives the number…

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…

What’s that old basement refrigerator worth? $35 is you’re an Ameren electric customer in Illinois.

The St. Louis-based utility owner is offering to buy older, secondary refrigerators and freezers from Illinois utility customers as a way to promote energy efficiency.

Ameren estimates that a…

As we wrote about in the Post-Dispatch last week, state and local governments are working on plans to deal with the aftermath of foreclosures, setting aside funds to help redevelop neighborhoods that have been hardest hit.

Now, those plans are available online,…

Standard & Poor’s lifted its credit ratings for Ameren Corp.’s Illinois utilities to investment grade on Thursday, just days ahead of a possible decision by regulators on a request to raise electric and gas rates by $207 million.

The ratings for AmerenIP,…