A state Senate committee is scheduled to begin hearings today on a deeply flawed bill that would remove key consumer protections for utility customers.
The measure, Senate Bill 228, would repeal a 1976 law that prohibits utilities from charging for the…
Each year, U.S. power plants generate enough coal ash to fill 1 million railroad cars. It contains toxic metals — including arsenic, lead, selenium and mercury — that can cause cancer and other serious health problems.
Individually, each of those toxins…
Of all the challenges in medicine, none may be more maddening than the gap between new discoveries by scientific researchers and effective therapies for treating sick patients. Closing that gap takes more than money, but without money, the gap never…
Findsolar.com has a neat solar calculator that shows how well a solar-powered residential electrical system would work in your area.
According to the calculator, St. Louis has a “good” rating for residential solar energy — 4.859 kWh/sq-m/day, to be exact.
