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.

The letter is interesting if considered side by…

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.

But it did little to…

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.

He and coalition media contact Scott Charton…

Talent

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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