AmerenUE's Callaway nuclear power plant.
AmerenUE is telling lawmakers and ratepayers that financing charges for a new nuclear plant would hike electric rates by 10.5 percent. Or maybe 10.8 percent. Certainly no more than 10.99 percent.
State regulators did the math for themselves. The…
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A Missouri Senate committee is to vote this afternoon on a revised — but still deeply flawed — utility bill that was written to benefit the state’s largest electric company.
AmerenUE has applied for a federal permit to build a new…
This editorial is just a place holder. We haven’t decided yet whether to write about one of the biggest issues facing Missouri legislators this year.
Our colleague Tony Messenger did. In a column published Tuesday, Mr. Messenger wrote that executives from utility…
Callaway Nuclear Plant.
Ron Richard, the Joplin Republican who is the new speaker of the Missouri House, last week unveiled what he and his fellow GOP lawmakers are calling the “Family Recovery Plan.”
Here’s how it would help Missouri families recover: It…
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We now know — thanks to, among other things, the revelations of whistle-blowers whose warnings went unheeded — that the explosion in home mortgage defaults and the ongoing credit crisis might have been avoided if the Federal Reserve had…
With most of the nation focused on a historic presidential campaign and election, Bush administration officials have been busy preparing parting gifts for their friends in private industry.
They’re scrambling to rewrite scores of federal regulations. Among the goals: to allow…
Utility giant AmerenUE wants to build a second nuclear power plant adjacent to its Callaway nuclear generating station near Fulton. But before it does, it wants some help from friendly members of the Missouri Legislature.
A 1976 state law, put on…
Missouri electric customers deserve all the protection they can get. But one of the few protections they currently enjoy is under heavy fire from a utility giant and its friends on the Public Service Commission.
At issue is a law that…
