The Missouri Public Service Commission held a hearing to get feedback on Ameren Missouri's plans to build a new natural gas plant in Jefferson County. Community members opposed the plant, saying it would harm the environment and cost too much.

More than a dozen people spoke out against a proposed natural gas plant at a virtual hearing before Missouri's Public Service Commission Thursday night.

"They're selling this to us and they're doing this almost under the cover of darkness, by the light of the moon," said Larry Sutton. "You know, suitcases of money under tables, kind of action. This just doesn't seem right."

Ameren Missouri is asking for permission to build the gas plant and battery storage facility on the site of the former Rush Island coal plant in Jefferson County. It would be a

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