Ameren

Utilities, fossil fuel companies, and aligned groups filed public comments last month supporting a pair of Trump administration proposals to repeal EPA limits on harmful emissions of air pollution and greenhouse gases from power plants.   One of the Trump administration’s proposals would reverse a Biden-era EPA rule that strengthened Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS),...

Ameren Missouri is citing a new law that it backed to justify building a methane gas plant that could increase costs for residential customers.  The St. Louis–based monopoly utility invoked Senate Bill 4 (SB 4), the omnibus energy bill passed in April 2025, multiple times in testimony with the Missouri Public Service Commission (MPSC). The...

The provision would have required independent verification of the utility’s climate goals

After spending the past half-decade scaling up efforts to diversify their workforces and suppliers as well as making and touting donations to social justice organizations, corporate utilities across the U.S. have begun to water down or abandon their commitments to promote diversity within their businesses and better serve communities of color. The retreat coincides with...