The EPA Continues to Review Carbon Emissions Standards
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released a proposal to rescind its own 2009 Endangerment Finding that has been used...
Retail Competition in the Energy Market
Missouri took a step toward reshaping part of its electricity market with the passage of House Bill 417 out of...
Caught Between a Rock and a Wet Place
The Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) has a tax or price increase on the April ballot in St. Louis City and...
Supreme Court Reins in Federal Bureaucracy in EPA Case
One of the first things most kids learn about American government is that it has three branches: the legislative, the...
St. Joseph Should Privatize Its Sewer System
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Joseph News-Press. The usual problems with water in St. Joseph, Missouri...
A Peculiar Solution for Ever-Increasing Water Rates
On June 2, residents of Peculiar, Missouri will vote on the sale of the City of Peculiar utility system to...
Audit the Kansas City Water Department
Water rates in Kansas City may soon go up, according to two ordinances just passed out of the city council’s...
Is There a 1984 in Our Future? A Super Bowl Reflection
What was the greatest Super Bowl commercial of all time? With Super Sunday just around corner, we will cite the...
A Linked Summary of the KCI Terminal Saga
In April 2013, Kansas City Mayor Sly James called for an “adult discussion about the facts” regarding the proposal to...
Kansas City’s Airport: A Monument to Political Ego
Kansas City has an effective and efficient airport. There is no reason why Kansas City cannot continue to meet the...
Sewer Infrastructure in Saint Louis May Get More Money
On April 5, voters in Saint Louis City and County will vote on two proposals for funding sewer infrastructure in...
Cost of Compliance to Rise for Missouri Wastewater Treatment
Recently, the EPA released a decision letter approving most of the changes to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ (MDNR)...
Arnold Wastewater Privatization: Don’t Waste the Opportunity
There’s “gold in them thar hills,” to quote a popular expression, which dates back to Mark Twain and the California...
Blame Canada Washington!
Austin Alonzo, of the Kansas City Business Journal, recently reported that Kansas City Mayor Sly James argued that a door-to-door public outreach...
No Environmental Or Energy Need For A New Terminal
According to the so-called Fact Sheet that the Kansas City Aviation Department produced in April 2013 regarding the Kansas City International Airport...
The EPA And Kansas City
Most people know that as a result of foot dragging from Kansas City politicians, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sued the...
Ameren: A Boost For Nuclear Energy?
For years, Ameren Missouri officials have worked to reform Missouri’s construction-work-in-progress (CWIP) law that prohibits utilities from billing customers for...
Kansas City Water Privatization Still a Hot Topic
The Kansas City Star’s Yael Abouhalkah has a solid piece today on the state of water and sewer privatization in...
The MSD Bond Issue: Vote Yes Or No, But Blame The EPA
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) has an enormous bond issue on the ballot next week, for $945 million! Even...
New Ethanol Mandates From Washington
My father founded and ran several area gas stations until his death. At first, he embraced the use of oil...
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