Most recent 40 articles: missouriindependent
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New Orleans council president implores MISO to improve regional grid after Ida - missouriindependent  (Apr 1) |
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Apr 1 · Smoke rises from distant stacks at Entergy’s power plant in Reserve, Louisiana, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Entergy operates electric utility companies in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi that serve 3 million customers (Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator file photo). Forty-five million people live in the area managed by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, the organization that runs a massive portion of the North American electric grid running from Manitoba, Canada, to the Gulf of Mexico. Inside that footprint are all or parts of 15 states, 75,000 miles of transmission lines and nearly 3,000 electric generating units: coal, nuclear, natural gas, wind, ... Read more ... |
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Lawmakers across the US seek to curb utility spending on politics, ads and more extras - missouriindependent  (Feb 28, 2024) |
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Feb 28, 2024 · A coal-fired power plant in Romeoville, Illinois (Scott Olson/Getty Images). After a string of scandals and amid rising bills, lawmakers in statehouses across the country have been pushing legislation to curb utilities spending ratepayer money on lobbying, expert testimony in rate cases, goodwill advertising, charitable giving, trade association membership and other costs. At least a dozen states have considered bills to limit how gas, water and electric utilities can spend customers’ money, according to a tracker maintained by the Energy and Policy Institute, a watchdog group funded by environmental and climate-focused foundations that concentrates on utilities and ... Read more ... |
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Big Ag has misled the public when it comes to fighting climate change - missouriindependent  (Oct 21, 2022) |
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Oct 21, 2022 · An aerial view from a drone shows a combine being used to harvest the soybeans in a field at the Bardole & Son’s Ltd farm on Oct. 14, 2019 in Rippey, Iowa. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) This commentary was originally published by Investigate Midwest. For the last several years Big Agriculture has tried, with some degree of success, to bamboozle the public into believing it’s all in when it comes to combating climate change when in fact it ain’t. It’s nothing new. Big corporations have been playing the misinformation game for a long time. Big Tobacco spent billions of dollars to saturate the public with propaganda that denied, ... Read more ... |
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Grain Belt Express announces expansion that means more clean energy for Missouri • Missouri Independent - missouriindependent  (Oct 04, 2022) |
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Oct 04, 2022 · Grain Belt pledged to pay the higher fare to landowners along the Tiger Connector line, which will run through Monroe County and Audrain County into Callaway County, where it will enter the grid (Getty Images). A years-long fight over the Grain Belt Express high-voltage transmission line appeared to end earlier this year when lawmakers signed off on compromise legislation requiring future transmission lines to bring more benefit to Missouri. It also required electrical transmission line developers to pay farmers more for easements to build future projects on their land. Grain Belt Express’ developer, Chicago-based Invenergy, responded by announcing its transmission ... Read more ... |
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Missouri, Kansas utilities may use loophole to charge customers for fossil fuel lobbying - missouriindependent  (Jun 07, 2021) |
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Jun 07, 2021 · KANSAS CITY - Missouri and Kansas residents’ utility bills may be helping to bankroll energy sector lobbying against policies aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Federal and state rules prohibit utility companies from passing their lobbying costs on to customers through bills. But in both Kansas and Missouri, utilities like Evergy, Ameren and Spire can include memberships in national trade groups in what residents pay for electricity and gas. And while utilities are required to carve out those organizations’ lobbying costs, even the remaining sum they are allowed to pass on to customers can go toward efforts that shape major policy, according to ... Read more ... |
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