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Electricity rule unreasonable
News-Leader, January 13, 2009The state Public Service Commission -- a five-member regulatory group appointed by the governor -- has created a rule regarding alternative electrical energy systems that seems to contradict state law.
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Lawsuit centers on alternative energy insurance
Missourian, December 23, 2008P.J. Wilson, founder of Columbia-based Renew Missouri, said renewable energy systems in use in households have safeguards that automatically keep them from feeding electricity into the power grid when necessary.
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Show-me some green love
GRIST, November 5, 2008Proposition C, a ballot initiative to establish a renewable portfolio standard for the state, passed with a resounding 67 percent margin.
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Renewable Energy Initiative Certified for November Ballot
Missouri Secretary of State, September 9, 2008JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced today that the Renewable Energy initiative will appear on the November 2008 ballot.
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Renewable Power's Growth in Colorado Presages National Debate
Washington Post, August 18, 2008DENVER -- When Colorado voters were deciding whether to require that 10 percent of the state's electricity come from renewable fuels, the state's largest utility fought the proposal, warning that any shift from coal and natural gas would be costly, uncertain and unwise. Then a funny thing happened. The ballot initiative passed, and Xcel Energy met the requirement eight years ahead of schedule. And at the government's urging, its executives quickly agreed to double the target, to 20 percent.
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Job Forecast for the Growing Green Economy
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Clean Energy Initiative Submits Signatures For 2008 Ballot
North American Wind Power, May 14, 2008Mo.-based Missourians for Cleaner Cheaper Energy has submitted approximately 170,000 signatures for the Clean Energy Initiative ballot to the secretary of state's office.
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Clean energy push
KTVO Channel 3, May 5, 2008JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Missourians for Cleaner Cheaper Energy today turned in approximately 170,000 signatures for the Clean Energy Initiative to the Secretary of State's office.
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Coalition Collects 170,000 Petition Signatures for Renewable Electricity Standard Ballot Initiative
League of Conservation Voters, May 5, 2008Coalition Collects 170,000 Petition Signatures for Renewable Electricity Standard Ballot Initiative in Missouri
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Petition deadline is here — but sign with caution
St Louis Post-Dispatch, May 4, 2008The petition process has its roots in Progressive Era populism, and there are still issues — such as the push in Missouri for a ballot item encouraging renewable energy — that are largely volunteer-driven.
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Clean energy initiative submits signatures for 2008 ballot
Press Release, May 4, 2008Missourians for Cleaner Cheaper Energy today turned in approximately 170,000 signatures for the Clean Energy Initiative to the Secretary of State's office.
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Faculty, students further renewable energy cause
Truman Index, April 24, 2008To James Harmon, professor of art history, it's time Missouri changed its attitude about energy. He and others at the University currently are involved with a campaign to put a renewable energy standard on the state's November ballot. The standard would require Missouri utility companies to increase their use of renewable energy by the year 2020.
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Kansas City Power & Light Announces Its Endorsement of Missouri Renewable Energy Ballot Initiati
Business Wire, April 23, 2008Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L), a subsidiary of Great Plains Energy Incorporated (NYSE: GXP), announced today that it is endorsing the effort by Missourians for Cleaner Cheaper Energy to put a renewable energy initiative proposal on the public ballot for the November 2008 election.
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Initiative would require more renewable energy
STLToday, April 22, 2008Missouri residents could get the chance to force some of the state's biggest utilities to sell more renewable energy.
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Are Missouri's evangelicals going green?
St. Louis Platform, April 16, 2008Across the country, evangelical Christians are going green. To be sure, many are still leery about jumping onto a bandwagon already filled with — in their view — ultraliberal, even "unwashed," activists. Yet, in recent months, several national evangelical leaders have urged their fellow believers to protect the environment.
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Energy activists want wind, sun, trash
South County Journal, April 14, 2008"This hasn't happened nationally. This hasn't happened locally. We know we have to take the initiative and bring it to the voters," Noble said. "We're going to make it happen ourselves."
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Rock Port to become first American 100 percent wind powered community
Maryville Daily Forum, April 13, 2008Rock Port will become America’s first 100-percent wind powered community when city officials throw the switch bringing the Loess Hills Wind Farm on line next Friday.
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Clean Energy Initiative
The Healthy Planet, April 9, 2008Renew Missouri thinks it's about time we started seeing more solar panels and wind turbines in our own back yards. Missouri is #20 in the nation in wind potential," says Renew Missouri Executive Director, PJ Wilson, "Yet we literally started putting wind turbines up only last year. We have more sunshine than New Jersey, yet most Missourians have never seen a solar panel."
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Energy activists seek to put issue on ballot
West County Journal, April 9, 2008"This hasn't happened nationally," Noble said. "This hasn't happened locally. We know we have to take the initiative and bring it to the voters. We're going to make it happen ourselves."
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Labor, Environmentalists Join Forces to Launch National 'Green Jobs for America' Campaign
The Earth Times, April 9, 2008The United Steelworkers (USW), the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Blue Green Alliance, a partnership of the USW and Sierra Club, today launched the national Green Jobs for America campaign. The campaign will focus on the ability of a serious commitment to clean, renewable energy to make us more energy independent, help us end our dangerous dependence on fossil fuels and create over 820,000 new green jobs nationwide. The public education campaign will take place in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, Oregon, and Nebraska. The campaign will run through September 15, 2008.
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The Rising Price of Coal
truthout, March 21, 2008As the global energy/climate crisis deepens, coal has become the starkest symbol and most telling measure of our predicament. Coal produces more carbon emissions than other energy sources - more than twice that of natural gas per unit of energy output. Consequently, coal-fired power plants are responsible for about one-third of US emissions of carbon dioxide. Despite this, we are mining and burning more coal than ever.
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Show-Me More Coal
The Pitch, February 26, 2008In Kansas, the battle over a pair of new coal-fired power plants in western Kansas has gridlocked state politics for nearly two months. But on the Missouri side, officials aren't too concerned about a little inconvenience like global warming. Yesterday, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources said: Show-Me more coal!
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Petitions requiring renewable energy resources approved for circulation
Springfield News-Leader, February 26, 2008Five petitions that would change Missouri law concerning renewable energy resources have met the standards for circulation, according to Secretary of State Robin Carnahan?s office.
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Ballot proposals would require renewable energy
Associated Press, January 25, 2008Environmentalists are proposing a ballot initiative that would force electric utilities in Missouri to make greater use of renewable energy.
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Boston's First Wind Turbine Serves as Example
Renewable Energy World Online, January 1, 2008Solar Design Associates, which is more commonly associated with noteworthy solar energy projects, recently showed they're not hesitant to tackle wind power projects as well. The firm partnered with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to install the 1st commercial-scale wind turbine within the City of Boston.
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Missouri Legislature Shoots Down Mandatory Renewable Energy Standard
sustainablog, February 28, 2006I dicussed the proposed renewable energy standard for Missouri a few weeks ago… It died today in the legislature,
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Archived News
Homeowners want simpler way to sell back power
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 27, 2007Missouri enacted a law in 2002 establishing standards for customers who want to connect to the grid. But renewable-energy advocates, environmentalists and legislators say the state's rules are too cumbersome and fall short of their intended goals.
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Renew Missouri asks for energy incentives
Columbia Missourian, April 1, 2007Senate Bill 674, also known as The Easy Connection Act, would amend regulations for connecting alternative energy sources to existing power grids and require utility companies to give credit for excess electricity produced by homeowners through a process known as net metering. As it stands, Missouri law does not accommodate the practice.
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Laying a foundation for future home builders
Cedar County Republican Newspaper, February 2, 2007The Easy Connection Act, sponsored by Rep. Jason Holsman and co-sponsored by 52 other state representatives, calls for more simple procedures for Missourians to connect to their utility provider's grid with home units generating renewable power, as well as the establishment of clear net-metering rules in the state.
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