Category: Safe Water

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

PRESS RELEASE: Lawsuit Settlement Compels EPA to Develop Nutrient Pollution Protections for Missouri Lakes FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: December 8, 2016 Contacts: Alicia Lloyd, Clean Water Policy Coordinator, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, alloyd@moenviron.org,  (c) (309) 212-6708, (o) (314) 727-0600 x12 Elizabeth Hubertz, Assistant Director and Attorney, Washington University Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, ejhubertz@wustl.edu, (314) 935-8760 St. Louis, MO:…