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Your monthly contribution of $10, $20 or more makes a difference!   Our monthly giving program allows us to spend less time fundraising and more time  promoting efficiency first and the reduction of dirty, dangerous and expensive power.  Click here to make a monthly gift. Click here to make a one-time gift.  Cancer mapping on Facebook A 1988 graduate of McClure High School, Jenell W. started the Coldwater Creek Just the Facts Facebook page to begin mapping incidences of rare illnesses from her classmates after her sister found that incidence rates for certain health conditions in the small population was a statistical impossibility. Coldwater Creek is one of the sites being addressed under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers FUSRAP (Formerly Utilized Site Remedial Action Program) because of radioactive contamination. The other St. Louis FUSRAP sites include the downtown Mallinckrodt plant (now Covidien), the Lambert Airport Site, and the Latty Ave. site in Hazelwood. Jenell is now mapping the cancers among the population of people who lived along Coldwater Creek. Sadly, the government has no mechanism to conduct such a cancer cluster study because impacts from radiation exposures are often seen two decades later, after children have grown up, moved away & had their own children. Cancer data is recorded in areas where people live - not where they used to live. Jenell's use of Facebook and her high school yearbook to investigate a dispersed population is unique. More than 700 cancers have been recorded to date; as well as problems with conception, immune system disorders, and three cases of conjoined twins.  Donate Now Become A Member  Volunteer  Forward  to a Friend        Like Us on Facebook      Follow Us on Twitter  In this Letter Cancer mapping Urgent Action in the Floodplain Special Thank you Legislative Update For over a decade the Missouri Coalition for the Environment has worked to bring attention to the health and environmental threats of radioactive wastes in the Missouri River floodplain. Now an underground landfill fire has all eyes on the Westlake Landfill Superfund Site. We need your help to keep the pressure on until the radioactive wastes are removed. URGENT ACTION NEEDED! Westlake Landfill Superfund Site - Radioactive Since 1973 By now, you may have seen the local and national news coverage of the Westlake Landfill. MCE is the only public interest organization consistently pressing for removal of the radioactive wastes. We need your help to: Mobilize and empower community member to keep the responsible parties accountable for contaminating our community; Facilitate quick analysis of the technical data generated around this complex issue; and Broaden our reach to public officials & the press. Support MCE's efforts to protect the people who live near the Westlake Landfill Superfund Site and move radioactive wastes away from people and water. While the radioactive wastes at the Westlake Landfill Superfund Site in Bridgeton have been languishing under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) inaction, a subsurface fire has been smoldering in an adjacent landfill for over two years, unbeknownst to the people living closest to it. Now the fire is within 1,200 feet of the radioactive material. Your support for MCE has enabled us to take the lead on monitoring this volatile situation and to speak up for removal of the wastes at the Westlake Landfill. This community needs our help more than ever. And we need yours. Our actions so far have included: Opposing the EPA decision to leave the radioactive wastes in the floodplain in 2008, leading to the EPA's current reconsideration. Collaborating with unions & other advocacy groups to turn out 350 people to the last EPA meeting on the Westlake Landfill. Demanding, with success, that the Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) and the St. Louis Co. Dept. of Health conduct air testing after residents reported headaches and illnesses in pets & children. Requesting full disclosure of the state's testing protocols and data, and ongoing site monitoring.  A very spcial thank you.... to Kay Drey, whose hard work and generous support has made MCE a leading force against dirty, dangerous and expensive nuclear power. DIRTY - DANGEROUS - EXPENSIVE Because St. Louis still bears the burden of the very first radioactive waste created in the atomic age and there is no solution to the problem of radioactive wastes anywhere, we have doggedly opposed nuclear power as an expensive, dangerous, dirty and false energy option. The nuclear industry is pushing for the new regulations to be expedited at the cost of science and safety, but MCE, by joining a nationwide effort to establish "high-level" nuclear waste storage policy at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), is pushing back. Your financial support allows MCE to engage on issues at the state level that impact national policy like long term radioactive waste storage. ENERGY ISSUES IN THE 2013 GENERAL ASSEMBLY                   MCE defended our voter approved ban on Construction Work In Progress (CWIP) during the 2009, 2011, and 2012 state legislative sessions. Our state's ban on CWIP charges has helped keep electricity rates low and stopped monopoly utilities from charging customers in advance for the promise of nuclear power in the future.             The risk of financing a nuclear reactor doesn't change when shifted to utility customers; it only changes the risk takers. The nuclear financing scheme is to socialize risk while privatizing profits. Upcoming Legislative Issues Against - Senate Bill 207 is a work-around of Missouri's ban on CWIP that will force captive customers to pay for a new nuclear reactorwith up to a 10% increase on electric bills. Support - Senate Bill 277, sponsored by Sen. Jason Holsman, would establish an Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard, requiring energy efficiency investments from Missouri's energy providers. Energy efficiency is the cheapest, cleanest, and safest form of meeting our energy demand. Missouri ranks 44/50 states by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. Against - House Bill 44 would count 100-year-old hydroelectric dams as new renewable energy instead of spurring new clean energy jobs and investments as Prop. C intended. Please consider a monthly gift or  a one-time gift  to support our efforts to remove radioactive wastes from the floodplain and reduce dirty, dangerous and expensive nuclear power in Missouri.  100% of your contribution goes to fighting these issues in Missouri.   However you choose to give, we are grateful for your contributions and support! Sincerely,  Heather B. Navarro Executive Director   Ed Smith Safe Energy Director

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Ameren UE -Dirty Coal Money-Influencing StLouis Elections

Would the $4,609,271.00 Previously Donated $ be better spent

for the Infrastructure Improvements instead of the Proposed Electrical Rate Increases?

↑Noteworthy Contributor↑	Years	Company or PAC Contributions	Subsidiary Contributions	Employee Contributions	Grand Total
*AMEREN Electric Utilities	2004-2012	$4,225,462	$265,388	$118,422	$4,609,271

As the national health-care reform debate rages on in Washington, D.C., lawmakers in many states are offering complementary — or counter — proposals. Similar efforts are occurring around energy and climate-change policy, and other policies, at both the state and national levels.

A groundbreaking collaboration by the National Institute on Money in State Politics and the Center for Responsive Politics created this unique view of the top 10,000 donors to political campaigns at both the state and national level—information that exists nowhere else. State political campaign money includes donations to political parties and ballot measure committees, as well as to candidates for elected office.

Top donors consist of companies, labor organizations, and special interest groups. Totals include money given by employees, subsidiaries, and/or locals affiliated with the donor.

Of the $5,784,749,560 in itemized contributions that was given to state-level state and federal federal political campaigns during the 2007 and 2008 election cycles, $22,709,783 (0.4%) came from the 7 (of the top 10,000 1,000 100 ) state and federal contributors that matched your search of(Electric Utilities) (in Missouri).

In Missouri statewide political campaigns, $105,568,078 was given in itemized contributions.7 of the top 10,000 national contributors donated within Missouri, to the tune of $227,815(0.2%).

Results: 1-7 of 7

http://www.followthemoney.org/database/top10000.phtml?topl=0&search=&i=36&s=MO

Rank	Contributor Industry	Missouri Total	State-level Total	Federal Total	↓Combined Total↓
113	NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION Electric Utilities	$39,000	$1,754,409	$1,789,600	$3,544,009
416	AMEREN Electric Utilities	$66,140	$962,417	$205,725	$1,168,142
2045	GREAT PLAINS ENERGY Electric Utilities	$46,000	$171,516	$77,865	$249,381
2932	AQUILA Electric Utilities	$63,000	$146,291	$26,633	$172,924
4662	EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC CO Electric Utilities	$13,675	$102,290	$3,200	$105,490

Lobbyist Clients Results

↑Lobbyist Client↑	Years	# of States Lobbied in	Lobbyists
AMEREN Electric Utilities	2003-2012	2	257
AMEREN ENERGY RESOURCES Uncoded	2011	1	4
AMEREN ENERGY SERVICES Electric Utilities	2009	1	1
AMEREN/UE Electric Utilities	2008	1	4
AMEREN/UE Electric Utilities	2008	1	1
AMEREN/UE Electric Utilities	2008	1	3
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMEREN UE AMEREN SERVICES AMEREN CORP Uncoded	2008	1	2
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES Electric Utilities	2008	1	1
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES Electric Utilities	2003-2007	1	24
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES Electric Utilities	2008	1	2
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES AMEREN CORP Uncoded	2008	1	7
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES AMEREN CORP Uncoded	2008	1	1
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES AMEREN CORP Uncoded	2008	1	1
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBS AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES AMEREN CORP Uncoded	2008	1	1

Contributor	Year	Records	Total
AMEREN	2004	144	$104,975
AMEREN	2006	56	$101,095
AMEREN	2008	211	$233,593
AMEREN	2010	240	$185,605
AMEREN	2011	7	$66,000
AMEREN	2012	356	$547,839

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The Institute currently receives its Missouri data from the Missouri Ethics Commission. The Institute obtains scanned images from the Web and supplements those by obtaining the paper reports filed by candidates who do not report electronically.

After the Institute receives the contribution information and puts it into a database, staff members verify that all candidates are represented in the database and that their political party affiliations and their win/loss statuses are correct. Researchers then standardize the contributor names and assign political donors an economic interest code, based either on the occupation and employer information contained on the disclosure reports or on information found through a variety of research resources. These codes are closely modeled on the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission system.

This unique database can be searched for multi-state and national trends, allowing ordinary citizens and professional researchers to "follow the money" behind key issues and from key contributors across state lines.

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