Labadie Environmental Organization

Ameren Missouri has plans for solar starting next year, wind in 2026 and battery storage in 2027, with various projects to add capacity in those categories lasting through the mid-2030s.

Patricia Schuba, president of the board of Labadie Environmental Organization, discusses what people can do to promote environmental change.

Missouri environmental groups are decrying proposed state rules that would allow power plants to discharge contaminants like coal ash into groundwater through a general permit for multiple facilities. Power plants currently have individual, site-specific permits.

“The new green economy can be as exclusive and as unjust as the old one,” said the Rev. Rodrick Burton. He and others want local residents to decide how the region responds to climate change.

The coal ash basins at Labadie Energy Center contain 15 million cubic yards of waste, the largest volume of Ameren’s four coal-fired power plants in Missouri.

The decision upholds a 2017 ruling by a lower court and part of a 2019 order that Ameren install pollution controls at the coal plant.

Environmental advocates say water used for cooling Ameren’s Labadie Energy Center, along with toxic contaminants leaching from coal ash ponds, pose a risk to wildlife and the surrounding area.

Opponents of Ameren’s plans to build a coal ash landfill in Labadie have reached an agreement with the company, ending years of contentious debate.The…

Updated on 2/17/15:Ameren’s coal-fired power plant in Labadie has been operating under an expired wastewater discharge permit since 1999.In fact, all of…

There’s a new twist in the legal wrangling over Ameren’s plans to build a coal ash landfill in Franklin County.On Tuesday, Ameren and Franklin County…