News

May 2014

U.S. Global Change Research program releases its Third National Climate Assessment, detailing the impacts of climate change in the United States. The Midwest can expect a range of detrimental effects including a reduction in agricultural productivity, increased extreme flooding events, increased heat wave intensity and frequency, increased humidity, and degraded air and water quality, resulting in negative impacts on transportation, agriculture, human health, and infrastructure.

November 2008

Missouri voters approved the Missouri Clean Energy Act (Proposition C), creating a mandatory renewable electricity standard in the state. The standard required utility companies to gradually increase their usage of renewable energy annually until 15 percent of the energy used in the state is renewable. The initiative also required that energy rates not increase by more than one percent annually. The standard provided a rebate to reduce the cost for homeowners and businesses to install eligible technologies for generating their own electricity which included: Solar Thermal Electric, Photovoltaics (Solar Electric), Wind, Hydroelectric, Small Hydroelectric, Ethanol, Fuel Cells using Renewable Fuels. More information on the Missouri Clean Energy Act can be found at the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE) and Ballotpedia.