Earth Day 2009

Earth Day has come and gone, but environmental issues are still here. In Missouri, prospects of a nuclear power plant look bleak, and Gov. Jay Nixon announced a plan to encourage energy conservation in state government. Here’s what others…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Environmentalist and political scion Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be in town tonight giving a talk on conservation and natural resources at the St. Louis Science Center.

Kennedy, son of the slain former senator and presidential candidate, will…

Grijalva

As president-elect Barack Obama begins to fill out the lower-profile seats in his cabinet, one choice could draw particularly high interest in St. Louis.

Obama has yet to chose his Interior Secretary, whose purview spans the country’s national parks and memorials…

DENVER — There’s been a lot of talk about how the Democratic National Convention this year is supposed to be the most environmentally friendly-ever. And we’ve heard the stories about how this effort has been a work in progress and…

The YouTube audience is currently eating up comments by Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid that burning fossil fuels creates health hazards.

Reid’s comments however were phrased more bluntly than that: “Coal makes us sick,” he said.

That pill isn’t settling well with…

A lot of folks in central Illinois were not happy when the Department of Energy pulled the plug on funding for a massive, cutting edge, carbon capture and sequestration coal plant that had been planned for Mattoon, Ill.

The plant meant…

As one St. Louis icon remains under siege, environmentalists are concerned about the future of another.

The Missouri Coalition for the Environment is urging supporters to attend a meeting next week where the National Park Service will be taking suggestions about…

We know that Claire McCaskill does not approve of John McCain’s push to expand off-shore drilling for oil, but not all Missouri politicians share that sentiment.

Congressional hopeful Blaine Luetkemeyer, running in a crowded Republican primary for the 9th District seat now held…

With the bifurcated politics of Illinois - Downstate versus Chicagoland - it’s sometimes easy to forget the now-presumptive Democratic nominee is from the state next door.

While Barack Obama’s ties to the Windy City have been woven into the fabric of the…

St. Louis Treasurer Larry Williams is the latest city official to go green.

Williams, the city’s ex officio parking czar, announced plans Wednesday to replace 1,134 light fixtures at four city garages with “high-efficiency fluorescent” bulbs.

Not only will the new lights save money, Williams…