Federal Policy Shifts Could Drive up Utility Costs for Missouri, Kansas Families

The Electricity Affordability Crisis Is Coming

For the first six months of President Trump’s term, the big question was about what would happen to the Inflation Reduction Act. We now have something like an answer.President Trump’s memorably named One Big Beautiful Bill Act repealed many of the IRA’s most important clean energy tax credits, including incentives for wind, solar, and electric vehicles. And while it’s still unclear whether the Trump administration will let developers actually us…

Federal policy shifts could drive up utility costs for Missouri, Kansas families

Households in Missouri and Kansas could see a 15% increase in utility costs as tax credits for renewable energy are eliminated.

Missouri's electricity bills to see highest spike in nation from Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill,' report says

Missourians are already tired of price increases in their electricity bills, but a new national law is expected to skyrocket those costs.

Missourians could see their energy costs surge under Trump's 'big, beautiful bill': Report

Missourians are poised to see their energy bills rise more than any other state over the next decade, according to a new report.

As Constituents Struggle to Afford Rising Utility Bills, Local Leaders are Calling for Corporate Accountability

People are struggling to afford the cost of basic goods as the cost of living increases at a seemingly exponential rate, and the companies that provide even the most basic necessities like gas and electricity are raking in billions of…

Trump's insane war on renewable energy

I’ve often had occasion to write that environmentalists are overrating the prospects of 100 percent renewable energy as a strategy for addressing climate change. Essentially, they are relying on a badly flawed “levelized cost of energy” metric, which says the marginal cost of adding one megawatt of wind or solar to a fossil-dominated grid is cheap, to conclude that an all-renewable grid would be cheap. This is wrong. Developing an all-renewable …