UPDATE: The various interest groups on both sides of the Ameren bill are weighing in on the news that the bill is likely dead: From Gregg Keller of Fair Electricity Rates Action Fund: “From day one, FERAF has negotiated in good…
JEFFERSON CITY — Like most, if not all, Ameren utility customers, I recieved a letter in the mail this week explaining the investor-owned utility’s side of the debate over its proposed nuclear plant.
JEFFERSON CITY – Several weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations on the proposal that would pave the way for a new AmerenUE nuclear plant produced a new bill that narrowly passed out of the Senate commerce committee Tuesday.
Irl Scissors, executive director of the new Missourians for a Balanced Energy Future, was in St. Louis on Monday as the first leg of a statewide promotional tour on behalf of the new group.
Former Missouri Sen. Jim Talent was back in the spotlight today with an austere report warning about the increasing likelihood of a cataclysmic terrorist attack.
In May, the St. Louis County Republican was tapped by Congress to help lead a bi-partisan…
Here’s a rough cut of Sen. John McCain’s speech from Springfield. The Town Hall lasted about two hours, so this is a quick take of McCain’s energy proposals that he has been pushing around the nation.
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