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Read MoreKansas City Waterpark is a World of Pollution
by Alicia Claire Lloyd 3/29/2016 New records, dated 11/3/15, obtained through document requests from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) (Worlds of Fun_151103_Anonymous Concern) reveal allegations that employees at Worlds of Fun (WOF) waterpark in Kansas City, Missouri were told to dump hazardous wastes into creeks nearby the facility. A former employee, a mechanic,…
Read MoreMCE Sues EPA for Failure to Protect Missouri Lakes Under the Clean Water Act
PRESS RELEASE Date: February 25, 2016 Contact: Alicia Lloyd, Clean Water Policy Coordinator, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, alloyd@moenviron.org, (314) 727-0600 x12 Elizabeth Hubertz, Attorney, Washington University Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, ejhubertz@wustl.edu, (314) 935-8760 MCE Sues EPA for Failure to Protect Missouri Lakes Under the Clean Water Act St. Louis, MO: The Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE)…
Read MoreHappy World Wetlands Day!! MCE and WashU Visit Wetland Mitigation Projects in the Floodplain
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 the City of Chesterfield…
Read MoreThe WCI doth protest too much…. methinks
By Brad Walker, Rivers Director February 1, 2016 PDF Version In late December 2015 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an op-ed by the Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE) and Sierra Club regarding the America’s Watershed Initiative’s (AWI) Mississippi River Basin Report Card and a response from the CEO/President of the Waterways Council Inc. (WCI)…
Read MoreDéjà Crue, all over again
By Brad Walker, Rivers Director January 27, 2016 Here we go again; another flood and lots of earnest questions about why it happened, who’s to blame, how we can fix it, etc., etc., etc. All one has to do is read old studies, not just ones you can find on the internet, but hard copy…
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