Community Corner
PETITION: Speak up for clean air and water monitoring
Ameren is in the business of making money for its investors and executives, but Ameren is doing this at the expense of the health and well-being of St. Louis area residents. Ameren relies almost entirely on dirty, out-of-state coal to generate electricity, poisoning our air and water in St. Louis County in the process.
Currently, Ameren is able to pollute almost limitlessly. Ameren’s plants lack pollution controls for dangerous sulfur dioxide, a pollutant that contributes to severe respiratory illnesses. Ameren doesn’t monitor groundwater at its existing coal ash disposal sites, even though leaching of pollutant-laden coal-ash waste has been documented. Now, Ameren is trying to rush through proposals to build new landfills for coal ash without informing our communities.
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http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/protect-our-air-and-water
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