Missourians for Safe Energy (MSE)

Missourians for Safe Energy has join our allies, the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Renew Missouri in opposing, before the Public Service Commission, Ameren’s effort to amend its Integrated Resource Plan to eliminate funding for energy efficiency programs.  See news release from Great Rivers Environmental Law Center [...]

As reported in the Missouri News Horizon, Governor Jay Nixon is planning on calling the General Assembly back for a special session, possibly very soon, and one of the bills that may be considered is Ameren Mini-CWIP proposal, that would allow the utility to charge customers in advance for the costs of obtaining an Early [...]

Very good news tonight from MSE’s perspective. The proposed mini-CWIP legislation that would have allowed Ameren to charge ratepayers for the cost of an Early Site Permit for a new nuclear power plant in Callaway County, years before it was built and operating, died due to lack of time at the close of the legislative [...]

The following is a letter to the editor of the Columbia Missourian by MSE member Jean Blackwood, published on May 3, 2011: Dear Editor, Although we have seen the defeat of a bill to partially repeal construction work in progress and head our state down the road to more dangerous, expensive nuclear power, there are [...]

We strongly encourage all MSE members and supporters to contact both your state senator and representative as soon as possible, asking them not to support passage of any bill that repeals the anti-CWIP legislation enacted by Missouri voters by a two-to-one margin. The existing No-CWIP law is an essential consumer protection. Ameren and other utilities [...]