Mon, Jul 27, 2015
Missouri is preparing its first statewide energy plan. Representative Rocky Miller (R-Lake Ozark) will chair three Energy and Environment Committee hearings around the state in between now and October to weigh in on Governor Jay Nixon’s proposals. Miller says Missouri needs an “all of the above” energy plan. “Here in Missouri, our energy profile is […]
Mon, Jul 27, 2015
In a poker game where the stakes are efficiency rebates underpinning the broadest energy savings program ever pursued in the St. Louis region, utility regulators have to decide who’s bluffing. Some believe Ameren Missouri is suggesting it might fold and let an almost three-year-old efficiency program lapse at the end of 2015 if regulators don’t […]
Mon, Jul 27, 2015
Ground-level ozone readings this summer haven’t been as worrisome as predicted, local environmental committee members said Friday. The Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission’s environmental quality committee, a group of government officials and business leaders from area counties, discussed implications for when air-quality standards change soon, among other issues, at their quarterly meeting […]
Mon, Jul 20, 2015
The world will need all the energy it can get from every source available to deal with a ballooning population, the International Energy Agency’s director told a crowd gathered at Washington University on Friday. But if the world is to keep coal in the mix and avoid devastating climate change, it needs to quickly develop […]
Sat, Jul 11, 2015
LIVING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE CREVE COEUR • In a greenhouse at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, where the temperature is pushing 90 degrees, tiny cameras hang from the ceiling, catching the slow-motion growth of more than two dozen varieties of corn. Soon, researchers will fill an automated, indoor system with still more corn plants, […]
Wed, Jul 8, 2015
Missouri has to continue to plant strong roots in the green economy. A new report from E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) and MEI (the Missouri Energy Initiative) shows that nearly 40,000 people in more than 4,400 establishments in the state are employed in green sectors of the economy. “This number is roughly double Iowa’s clean energy and […]
