Category: Missouri Legislature and Agencies

MCE worked with the Missouri Parks Association and Audubon Missouri to stop many bad bills and to support a few good ones that were proposed this year in Jefferson City. MCE often traveled to Missouri’s capitol to testify on various bills, and we coordinated a citizen lobby day for people to meet their legislators. Our…

MCE Rapid Response Fund Because Nothing is Protected Forever. The Rapid Response Fund is a critical resource for addressing emerging threats to our environment and public health that allows MCE to mobilize quickly and effectively. With your support, we can have an impact when and where it matters most. What Rapid Response looks like: Challenging…

Why We Engage How We Engage How You Can Help Why We Engage Missouri Legislature The right to clean water, healthy food access, and public land are a few of the environmental and social justice issues MCE has worked on during our 50 years of service to Missouri. Of elected officials at the local, state,…

Thank you to everyone who helped defeat Amendment 7! One thing all Missourians can get behind is the ability to get from one place to another safely. Whether the commute is twenty minutes or two hours, our livelihoods depend on us being able to get our families, our employees, and our goods from one place…

This summer, Governor Jay Nixon vetoed HB 650, an omnibus bill which contained an attempt by special interests to do big favors to one of our biggest polluters, Doe Run. HB 650 would have capped punitive or exemplary damages to claims from Doe Run, operator of the nation’s largest lead smelter and lead mining/milling operations…

In 2013, more than 80 Senate Bills and 80 House Bills reached the governor’s desk, many of which were “truly agreed to and finally passed” the final week of session. When the dust cleared, a few special interests wheedled some erosive measures into our state environmental laws while conservationists successfully fended off the most aggressive…