On September 20th, the Pacific, MO, Board of Aldermen passed a resolution calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ensure a sufficient number of sulfur dioxide monitors are placed around Ameren’s Labadie coal-fired power plant and that the monitors be placed in locations where the highest levels of pollution are expected to be detected. This is the second such resolution passed with St. Charles County Council passing the same resolution unanimously last week.
A copy of this resolution will be forwarded by the board’s Executive Assistant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
In response, John Hickey, Director of the Missouri Chapter of the Sierra Club, released the following statement:
“Today’s vote is further proof that our communities want clean air to breathe. Twice now local councils have voted unanimously to ensure that the air around Ameren’s Labadie plant is properly monitored. That’s not coincidence. That is a clear sign to the EPA that folks on the ground are worried about breathing in dangerous levels of sulfur dioxide. Ameren has been given ample chance to take action but instead of solutions they make excuses and it’s time for them to step up and move towards the future instead of poorly investing in expensive coal-fired power plants. We applaud Pacific’s Board of Aldermen as well as St. Charles County Council’s leadership and ask that other communities in the region speak out as well. Our families deserve better than to breathe poisoned air.”
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