Veto Session to Convene in Jefferson City The Missouri General Assembly will meet at the Capitol in Jefferson City beginning Wednesday, September 10, 2014, for the annual Veto Session. Legislators will have the opportunity to vote on overriding any of the 30 bills vetoed by Governor Jay Nixon after the regular legislative session ended in May. Consumers Council of Missouri is working to ensure that the veto of Senate Bill 694 be sustained should a motion be made to override it ...
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Ameren Seeks $264M From Consumers Despite Strong Earnings Performance
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 4, 2014 Ameren Missouri filed a request Thursday to raise electric rates by nearly 10 percent, the sixth time since 2006 the state’s largest utility has sought a general rate increase. The St. Louis-based utility is seeking permission from its regulator, the Missouri Public Service Commission, to increase rates by $264 million. If the PSC grants Ameren the full request, the typical household would pay about $10 more a month in utility bills. The ...
McCaskill Takes on Television Services over Consumer ‘Truth in Billing’ Tactics
Missourinet, June 26, 2014 Senator Claire McCaskill’s Consumer Affairs Committee is going to investigate billing practices of the cable and satellite television industry. She’s asking customers to send their horror stories to her as part of her committee’s look into possible “truth in billing practices” legislation. She says some of the practices are unfair to consumers and need to be cleaned up. In fact, she says, she’s a victim. “You’ve got a ten dollar charge ...
Regulators Allow Ameren Rate Increase
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 22, 2014 Ameren Missouri customers will be paying a little more for electricity starting later this month. The Missouri Public Service Commission has approved an increase in the surcharge customers pay to account for Ameren's fuel and power purchases. The fuel adjustment clause will rise by 66 cents a month to a total of $3.63 for a residential customer using 1,100 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month. The change will take effect May 27. Th ...
Customers Claim Utilities Violated Missouri’s Renewable Energy Law
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 14, 2014 As a rebate that subsidized rooftop solar panels nears its end, two Ameren Missouri customers have filed a formal complaint with the state’s utility regulator in an attempt to keep the money flowing. The complaint, submitted Wednesday to the Missouri Public Service Commission, accuses Ameren Missouri of violating the state’s renewable energy law when it denied their rebate applications. State law keeps utilities’ renewable energy efforts ...
Opinion: Legislature Should Limit Payday Loan Industry
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 2, 2014 Opinion By Tishaura O. Jones, Treasurer of the City of St. Louis One of my goals as treasurer is to create programs that will help improve the quality of life for St. Louis residents. That is why I’ve made financial literacy and empowerment my mission. Simply put, financial literacy is the ability to understand how money works. But financial literacy isn’t just about balancing your checkbook or knowing how much money you have in the ...
Activist Shareholders Make Headway Questioning Ameren’s Political Activities
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 24, 2014 Ameren shareholders Thursday voted down two proposals offered by activist shareholders, but the measures still drew significant support from investors at the company’s annual shareholders meeting. The board of directors at the St. Louis-based power company had recommended that the two proposals be rejected. The first proposal, which would have required Ameren’s chairman be an independent member of the board of directors, was backed by ...
Sen. Boxer Urges GM CEO Mary Barra to Support Rental Car Safety Legislation
Office of Sen. Barbara Boxer, April 8, 2014 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) sent a letter Tuesday (April 8) urging General Motors CEO Mary Barra to support the Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act, bipartisan legislation that would help protect consumers by keeping unsafe, recalled rental cars off the road. Last week, at a Senate Commerce Subcommittee hearing on GM’s recall of 2.6 million vehicles, Senator Boxer questioned Barra about GM’s tro ...
It’s Not Too Late to Get Covered
St. Lous Post-Dispatch, April 2, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not too late to get covered. A few routes remain open for those who missed the health care law's big enrollment deadline. Millions may be eligible for a second chance to sign up for subsidized insurance this year. And people who get coverage after the deadline can still avoid, or at least reduce, the fine for going uninsured. Here are five options for those still without insurance: ___ 1. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ...
Consumer Groups Back Noranda in Fight with Noranda Over Electric Rates
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 31, 2014 A dispute between a major employer in the Missouri Bootheel region and St. Louis-based Ameren Corp. is commanding attention from consumer groups, cities and even the world’s largest retailer, creating unusual alliances in the process. Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp., which operates a smelter in New Madrid that employs 888 people, is seeking sharply lower electric rates, something it says it needs to preserve jobs in an economically depress ...
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