Today, AmerenUE is partnering with other utilities to fund the literally “groundbreaking” Missouri Carbon Sequestration project.
Working with research partners from City Utilities of Springfield, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Missouri State University and the Missouri University of Science and Technology, AmerenUE and its funding partners are studying the feasibility of storing carbon dioxide—CO2, the leading greenhouse gas—underground.
In 2008, AmerenUE received a special recognition award in the category of "Partnership" from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Coal Combustion Products Partnership (C2P2) program.
The award recognizes a concrete packaging facility at UE's Labadie Plant. The unique facility—the result of a partnership between AmerenUE and Charah®, Inc. of Louisville, Ky.—recycles more than 60,000 tons of fly and bottom ash annually into two million bags of high-quality concrete mix.
In 2007, AmerenUE received a pollution prevention award from the St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Environmental Managers (NAEM) for its innovative program to generate electricity by burning tons of recovered paint solids from an automotive manufacturing plant.
The Chrysler Group, which operates the automotive plant in Fenton, Mo., hopes that the “Paint to Power” program will be expanded to two other facilities in Michigan. Meanwhile, Washington University in Saint Louis and Chrysler have teamed up to begin testing the use of titanium dioxide--a major component of the paint—to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired electric generating plants, like the 855-megawatt Meramec Plant.
AmerenUE was one of seven recipients of the Fifth Annual Missouri Governor’s Pollution Prevention Award, presented by the late Governor Mel Carnahan in 1999.
AmerenUE was honored for using innovative technologies to reduce nitrogen oxide (Nox) emissions at the Labadie, Rush Island and Sioux power plants. The company has reduced nitrogen oxide emissions at these plants by 65% since 1990—more than 50% greater than current clean air regulations require.
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