The EPA's 'biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history' will likely have longstanding consequences for Missouri's air quality ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to reconsider two coal-fired power plant regulations imposed by the ...

The agency has proposed a two-year compliance exemption for affected power plants while it reconsiders the Mercury Air Toxics ...

Facing spiking energy demand, U.S. states are pressing for ways to build new power plants faster as policymakers try to protect residents from higher electric bills and keep their economies ...

Missouri's Senate has passed a bill allowing utilities to charge customers for power plant construction before the plants are operational, a practice banned since 1976. Critics warn of increased ...

The Missouri legislature just passed a ... sized “dispatchable” energy plant, effectively coal, nuclear or natural gas power plants. Of those options, natural gas is most likely to be built.

In Missouri, utilities including Ameren ... longstanding power reserves are dwindling, especially as coal-fired and nuclear power plants retire, and now all sorts of power companies are leaping ...

which burned coal, in south St. Louis County. The plant closed in 2022. Evergy, the largest power provider in Kansas and western Missouri, is planning two natural gas plants in Kansas to open by 2030.