Published April 20, 2021 at 3:17 PM CDT Listen • 14:30 Ameren Missouri
Ameren Missouri’s operations include a 400-megawatt High Prairie Renewable Energy Center in northern Missouri. It’s the state’s largest wind facility.
This past September, Ameren Missouri unveiled
a long-range plan that includes a goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions across all its operations by the year 2050.
Shrewsbury resident Andy Knott says that’s not fast enough.
“The climate science really demands that we phase out coal by [2030] as well as gas by 2035 to avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis,” Knott, the deputy regional director for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, told