Great Rivers Environmental Law Center
Lawyers for the Environment
Category: Climate and Energy Program
NAACP and Ameren Missouri to Work Toward Providing Affordable, Renewable Energy to Low Income and Minority Communities
Ameren Missouri and the NAACP work together to provide affordable, renewable energy to persons who reside in low income and minority communities.
Read MoreChocolate Threatened by Climate Change!
Did you know that climate change threatens chocolate?
Read MoreClimate and Energy Director Henry Robertson Goes to the Missouri Supreme Court for Renewable Energy
The case for renewable energy is heard today in the Missouri Supreme Court.
Read MoreGreat Rivers Urges the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to Take a Harder Look at the Environmental Effects of Spire’s STL Pipeline
Great Rivers is taking action to ensure that climate change is considered in decisions to approve pipelines. On behalf of Juli Viel, a resident of St. Louis County, Great Rivers filed Comments on the Environmental Assessment in the federal approval process for Spire’s proposed natural gas pipeline slated to be built through a poor minority community of St. Louis County, and to cross the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in the St. Louis area.
Read MoreMissouri Supreme Court Lets Stand Obstruction of State Renewable Energy Law
April 26, 2017 MISSOURI SUPREME COURT LETS STAND OBSTRUCTION OF STATE RENEWABLE ENERGY LAW On April 25, 2017, the Missouri Supreme Court refused an opportunity to enforce the state’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES), passed by voters in the 2008 election…
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