News Articles

MBEF is following strategic national energy news that impacts both the economy and our environment.

• Energy.gov: Obama Administration Announces $450 Million to Design and Commercialize U.S. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
  

  April 19, 2012

  Original publish date: 3/22/12 [read more]

• Kirksville Daily Express: TradeWind project blows out
  

  April 6, 2012 by Taylor Muller

  A northeast Missouri wind energy project that was hoped to have been completed and in operation months ago has fallen through as the lead company pulled out of the entire state citing a lack of a market for renewable energy. [read more]

• Gallup: Americans Still Favor Nuclear Power a Year After Fukushima
  

  March 26, 2012 by Frank Newport

  One year after the tsunami and resulting failure of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, a majority of Americans continue to favor the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity for the U.S. The 57% who favor nuclear power this year is identical to the percentage measured in early March 2011, just before the Fukushima incident. [read more]

• Barnes for Missouri: Mo House Endorses American Oil and the Keystone Pipeline
  

  March 21, 2012 by Representative Jay Barnes

  I’m pleased to report the House passed HCR 37 by voice-vote this morning, a resolution I sponsored calling on Congress and the President to support continued oil exploration in the United States and Canada and the Keystone XL Pipeline. I’d rather get my oil from Canadian Mounties and the Bakken Reserve in Montana and the Dakotas than from Middle Eastern despots. American energy exploration is good for national security and both short and long-term job creation.  [read more]

• Des Moines Register: Lawmakers need to keep nuclear power an option for Iowa
  

  March 17, 2012 by John Shors

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• Eastern Iowa Government: Iowa nuclear power plan okayed; Senate passage expected
  

  March 13, 2012 by James Q. Lynch

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• The News-Tribune: Kehoe introduces early nuclear plant permit bill
  

  March 1, 2012 by Bob Watson

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• Consumer Energy Alliance: PROTECT AFFORDABLE ELECTRICITY COSTS: TELL CONGRESS TO MANAGE NUCLEAR WASTE
  

  February 16, 2012

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• AREVA: A Key Marker for US Nuclear Energy
  

  February 15, 2012

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• News Tribune: Your Opinion: Site permit effort wins appreciation
  

  February 11, 2012 by Jim Winemiller, Jefferson City

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• Yale Daily News: Nuclear’s back with new clarity
  

  February 10, 2012

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• The Scientific American: Nuclear Reactor Approved in U.S. for First Time Since 1978
  

  February 9, 2012 by David Biello

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• Southeast Missourian: Gov. Nixon backs new oil pipeline
  

  January 31, 2012 by David A. Lieb

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• The Hill: US must remain leader in nuclear enrichment
  

  January 17, 2012 by Retired Gen. James L. Jones

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• MBEF: MBEF Statement on the Filing of Early Site Permit Legislation
  

  January 13, 2012 by Irl Scissors

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• KY3-TV: Senator McCaskill touts 'responsible energy' during visit to Springfield
  

  January 13, 2012 by Mike Landis

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• The Fulton Sun: Riddle to file bill to permit expansion of nuclear plant
  

  January 10, 2012 by Don Norfleet

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• Southeast Missourian: Sikeston may be at end of low power rates
  

  January 6, 2012 by Scott Welton

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• The Quincy Herald-Whig: McCaskill pledges to protect Missouri energy companies from efforts to eliminate the use of coal
  

  January 5, 2012 by Doug Wilson

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• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Missouri, other coal states in crosshairs of EPA mercury rule
  

  December 22, 2011 by Jeffrey Tomich

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• The Joplin Globe: Renewable-energy center near completion at Crowder
  

  December 20, 2011 by Josh Letner

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• Missourians for a Balanced Energy Future -- PRESS RELEASE: Renewable Energy Ballot Proposal Requires Families and Small Businesses to Subsidize Electric Rates for Big Corporations
  

  December 19, 2011 by Irl Scissors

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• Columbia Daily Tribune: Used nuclear fuel is a good energy source
  

  December 13, 2011 by William H. Miller

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• USA Today: Editorial: Japan's nuke meltdown shouldn't close U.S. plants
  

  December 13, 2011 by David Guttenfelder

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• USA Today: Electricity bills by state
  

  December 13, 2011 by Dennis Cauchon

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