The House Energy and Commerce Committee last week took a major step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It approved a bill that would cap releases of heat-trapping gases and create a national market to trade pollution credits.
The bill comes on the…
The tough new emissions and mileage standards announced by the White House on Tuesday are a major step forward for automakers and the planet.
The new standards will significantly reduce the release of heat-trapping greenhouse gases from cars at a time when…
AmerenUE’s plan to build a second nuclear power plant in Callaway County may be in jeopardy. But if so, it won’t have been CWIP that killed it.
CWIP, of course, stands for construction work in progress. It refers to a state…
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…
One of the biggest issues facing Missouri lawmakers, utility regulators and, especially, electric customers this year is a proposed new nuclear power plant in Callaway County.
Utility giant AmerenUE says that it hasn’t decided yet to build a second nuclear generating…
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President Barack Obama is moving swiftly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He cleared the way this week for California to set strict new carbon-dioxide standards for cars and trucks. A dozen other states are poised to adopt the standards once…
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…
Illinois sits atop the nation’s second-largest coal reserves. Whether that fuel represents the nation’s energy future or its past is the subject of an increasingly bitter debate playing out over the nation’s airwaves.
Industry groups have been working hard to sell…
Steven Chu
On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama named Steven Chu, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, as his choice to lead the Department of Energy. It’s hard to imagine a greater contrast between Mr. Chu and the man he probably…
Consumers are enjoying the lowest retail gasoline prices in years, a welcome ray of light in an ever-darkening economic picture.
That’s good news for financially strapped American families and for the domestic auto industry, which has struggled to produce the high-mileage…
Post-Dispatch photo by Robert Cohen
Nine Days before the Feb. 5 presidential primaries in Missouri and Illinois, this editorial page endorsed Barack Obama and John McCain in their respective races.
We did so enthusiastically. We wrote that either Mr. Obama’s message of…
We posted video of Republican candidate Kenny Hulshof talking about his energy policy this week. Here, his Democratic opponent Attorney General Jay Nixon talks about the same subject.
To most of us, energy policy means figuring out how much $4-a-gallon gas to put in the tank and still have money left over to buy school clothes for the kids. It means paying higher prices for just about everything,…
Rep. Roy Blunt was in town Friday, and met and talked with the editorial board on many topics — such as national energy policy, the new foreign intelligence surveillance law, healthcare, presidential and vice presidential politics and what it will take…
Update: Click here to view video.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) met with the editorial board this afternoon to talk about health care, politics, the Redbirds, and the summer heat.
Click below to hear just one question for Sen. Dick Durbin:
Just one question for Sen. Dick Durbin
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