April 8, 2011 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — New language regarding the state’s renewable energy standards is headed for the House floor. This week, a House committee passed legislation that it hopes will allow the state’s renewable energy statute passed by voters in 2008 to go into effect. The new language requires Missouri-based utilities to make [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The state legislature Tuesday took what could be its first steps towards its involvement with the next nuclear energy generating plant, and it seemed every lobbyist in the State Capitol turned out to say their piece. In a packed hearing room in the Capitol basement, the House Utilities Committee took an [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — House Speaker Steven Tilley, R-Perryville, on Tuesday appointed a Democratic state representative from Kansas City to head a special committee tasked with writing new language for the state’s renewable energy rules. The state’s largest public utilities, Public Service Commission members, renewable energy supporters and business [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A controversial measure to increase renewable energy projects in and near Missouri was stripped from the final version of the state’s new renewable energy law. The Missouri Public Service Commission on Tuesday voted 3-2 to send the voter-mandated renewable energy standards to Secretary of State [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Nearly two years after Missourians voted to create a renewable energy standard, the details of making the rule a reality languish in a maze of governmental rulemaking procedure. Thursday, members of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), a legislative committee that oversees state rulemaking, [...]
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