Category: Clean Air

We are teaming up with the Sierra Club to ask Attorney General Koster to support President Obama’s Clean Power Plan that will set limits on carbon dioxide pollution for the first time ever. Missouri’s Attorney General Chris Koster has a key role to play in protecting President Obama’s historic action on climate change. The EPA’s…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2015 Contact: Henry Robertson, (314) 231-4181, hrobertson@greatriverslaw.org Ed Smith, (314) 705-4975, esmith@moenviron.org Group Appeals Renewable Energy Standard Circuit Court Decision St. Louis, MO: Seven years after voter approval, the effort to fully implement Missouri’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES) continued this week when the Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE), Missouri Solar Applications, LLC,…

Letter to the Editor by Ed Smith, Safe Energy Director Printed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on June 14, 2015 Peabody to slash 250 jobs, including 50 in St. Louis” (June 9) underscores the fact that while some continue to deny the scientific reality of climate change, the economic realities show us that Missouri can…

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new carbon rule released on Monday, June 2nd will result in a 30% reduction from 2005 levels in nationwide power plant carbon emissions by 2030. The new rule outlines state-by-state reductions that cumulatively result in the 30% reduction. For Missouri, this means a 21% reduction from our 2012 emission levels, which would help…

Background On June 25, 2013, President Obama issued a Presidential Directive, called the Climate Action Plan, that included a Presidential Memorandum directing the EPA to issue rules on carbon emission limits. Just short of a year later on June 2, 2014, the EPA released a proposed rule to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants,…

Greenhouse Gases Greenhouse gases emissions are trapping heat in our atmosphere, leading to increased temperatures. These emissions are also impacting the frequency of precipitation events, causing more frequent droughts in some parts of the world while increasing flooding and hurricanes in other parts of the world. As a result, communities, plant and animal species, entire ecosystems, and…