Chesterfield Sports Complex in MO River floodplain won’t happen, City remains non-compliant with mitigation for prior wetland destruction

by Alicia Claire Lloyd 6/6/17 UPDATE: On Friday, December 23, we received notice that the City of Chesterfield applied to overdevelop even more of the floodplain they should have never paved in the first place. The timeline for comments was excessively short given the holiday. On June 6, 2017, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that…

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2017 American Society of Civil Engineers Report Card Fraught with Errors

This article was written for the Nicollet Island Coalition PDF Version By Brad Walker, Rivers Director                                                                    May 22, 2017 The 2017 Infrastructure Report Card was recently released by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a cursory review leaves me to wonder, who is editing this thing?  Is anyone looking critically at making sure…

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Settlement between Missouri Coalition for the Environment and Worlds of Fun Will Benefit Shoal Creek Watershed and the Missouri River

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: March 9, 2017 Contacts: Alicia Lloyd, Clean Water Policy Coordinator, Missouri Coalition for the Environment (314) 727-0600 x112, alloyd@moenviron.org Bob Menees, Attorney, Great Rivers Environmental Law Center (314) 231-4181, bobmenees@greatriverslaw.org Lia Comerford, Staff Attorney, Earthrise Law Center (503) 768-6823, comerford@lclark.edu Kansas City, MO: The Missouri Coalition for the Environment (“MCE”) and…

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Support FUSRAP Transfer

Support FUSRAP Transfer The Missouri Coalition for the Environment supported legislation that would have transferred jurisdiction of the radioactive waste at the West Lake Landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) under the US Army Corps of Engineers. Read MCE’s op-ed in The Hill supporting FUSRAP in 2016….

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The Troubling Double-Standards on Our Rivers

PDF Version By Brad Walker, Rivers Director                                                                    February 9, 2017 After a century of recklessly damaging our rivers — far too often for little public benefit, one would hope that we would have learned some lessons. One of them should be that we would make it easier to restore our rivers than it is to…

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Chesterfield is at it again.

UPDATE:  On Friday, December 23, we received notice that the City of Chesterfield is applying to overdevelop even more of the floodplain that they should have never paved in the first place. The timeline for comments is excessively short given the holiday. Stay tuned to @moenviron and @mcewater for updates. Read the public notice here: pn-permit-reauthorization-p-2032-cmbnd…

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