Ameren in hot seat after new EPA rules target coal plant emissions

The company generates more than half of its power from coal, helping Missouri burn more of the material than any state but Texas. And the utility’s biggest power plant, the Labadie Energy Center in Franklin County, accounts for the second-most greenhouse gas emissions of any coal plant in the country. Plants that aim to operate beyond 2039 would have to cut or capture 90% of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2032, the EPA said. Those that expect to be retired by 2039 would still have to capture some emissions. Plants...