Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Robin Carnahan is the outgoing U.S. General Services Administration Administrator and former Missouri Secretary of State.

Robin Carnahan reflects on time as leader of General Services Administration

Jason Rosenbaum

Former Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan will soon depart from the agency responsible for managing federal procurement and the government’s real estate holdings.

An individual holds a lead pipe, a steel pipe and a lead pipe treated with protective orthophosphate. The Environmental Protection Agency is only now requiring water systems to inventory their lead pipes decades after new ones were banned

Health, Science & Environment

New federal rule will require removal of lead pipes in St. Louis

Kate Grumke

The Environmental Protection Agency announced drinking water providers will have 10 years to identify and remove lead pipes across the country.

Ameren Missouri’s Callaway nuclear power plant seen during a Lighthawk flight on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Callaway County.

Health, Science & Environment

What will a new push for nuclear energy look like in Missouri and Illinois?

Kate Grumke

Amid a federal push to expand nuclear to combat climate change, Missouri and Illinois are weighing the possibilities of new technology and aging plants.

A Ritenour School District school bus leaves the parking lot on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, at Husky Support Center in Overland. The district received a 9.45 million dollar grant to fund an electrical bus fleet.

Health, Science & Environment

St. Louis-area schools get big bucks for electric school buses

Kate Grumke

A federal program is sending millions of dollars to a handful of St. Louis-area school districts so they can replace diesel buses with all-electric models.

An abandoned mining pit can be where contaminated water pools. In surface mining the working area may also be known as a strip pit. Mine workings or excavations open to the surface are also termed pits.

Health, Science & Environment

Illinois awarded more than $75 million to clean up and develop its abandoned mine lands

Brian Munoz

Illinois is receiving more than $75 million through Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help reclaim and revitalize abandoned mine lands across the state — including the Metro East.