Utility CEO pay surges amid higher profits, customer struggles
April 21, 2026
Utilities saw poor customer outcomes, lowered standards as they gave CEOs raises
Ameren
Ameren Corporation is a gas and electric utility based out of St. Louis, MO, servicing most of central and southern Illinois and much of northern and eastern Missouri. Ameren has approximately 2.4 million electric customers and more than 900,000 methane gas customers.
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Utilities and fossil fuel industry support proposed Trump administration air pollution rollbacks
September 23, 2025
Utilities, fossil fuel companies, and aligned groups filed public comments last month supporting a pair of Trump administration proposals to repeal EPA limits on harmful emissions of air pollution and greenhouse gases from power plants. One of the Trump administration’s proposals would reverse a Biden-era EPA rule that strengthened Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS),...
Ameren justifies new gas plant with law that it lobbied for
August 19, 2025
Ameren Missouri is citing a new law that it backed to justify building a methane gas plant that could increase costs for residential customers. The St. Louis–based monopoly utility invoked Senate Bill 4 (SB 4), the omnibus energy bill passed in April 2025, multiple times in testimony with the Missouri Public Service Commission (MPSC). The...
Ameren shareholders reject anti-greenwashing proposal
May 14, 2025
The provision would have required independent verification of the utility’s climate goals
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Electric utilities falling behind on emission reduction targets
March 17, 2025
Power Trip: How utilities use customer money to fund lobbying, corporate branding, and luxury lifestyle expenses
December 11, 2024
Powerless in the United States: the third installment in the Powerless in the Pandemic series
January 30, 2023
Getting Politics Out of Utility Bills
January 26, 2023
Many U.S. electric utilities plan slow decarbonization over next decade, out of sync with Biden plan
December 1, 2020
Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits
December 10, 2019