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…

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…

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…

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…

“An energy policy that prohibits America from finding oil in our own land, is an energy policy that has led to high gas prices.”

He says gas prices pretty much a tax that Congress can be blamed for.

He made…

If yesterday’s snazzy flash video from State Rep. Jeff Harris wasn’t enough CAFO for you, there’s more today.

Harris, a Democratic running for Attorney General, is promoting his stance for tighter controls on “concentrated animal feeding operations,” agriculture set-ups that pack a…

Stymied by conventional political methods, State Rep. Jeff Harris did what so many of his colleagues have already done: Make his own video.

A farm-animal cartoon, no less.

Though it may not have the same appeal as the, say, now infamous…

The Missouri Coalition for the Environment plans to hold its annual meeting on Sunday, March 2, at the Schlafly Tap Room, 21st and Locust streets in Midtown St. Louis. The program begins at 3 p.m.
On tap, says the group, will be…