Clean energy

Ameren Missouri officials announced Monday that the company will invest nearly $8 billion in renewable energy over the next 20 years. Ameren plans to retire its coal-fired coal plants by 2042.

The specially designed bricks are powerful enough to illuminate an LED light and could someday provide a new way to store renewable energy.

A Midwest nonprofit and a financial institution are partnering to invest $25,000 in one small energy business to help provide exposure, economic support…

Updated at 10:20 p.m. Aug. 20 to include the City Council's decision to delay its voteBusinesses in Fairview Heights may soon find private investors to…

The Missouri Public Service Commission gave the green light Wednesday to allow a 780-mile wind-energy transmission line to be built across Missouri.The…

Clean-energy companies in Missouri are finding it difficult to hire qualified workers, even as the number of residents in the state working in energy…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 21, 2009 - Last month, Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and John Kerry, D-Mass., introduced the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 22, 2009 - On Nov. 5, 2008, the task of keeping young people engaged in national affairs became…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 29, 2009 - If you are reading this story on a computer, you are probably using electricity from…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 29, 2009 - In the push for cleaner air, public attention has now turned to the main product of…