Category: Safe Water

Missouri Coalition for the Environment Files Suit Against Worlds of Fun Alleging Clean Water Act Violations Date: November 17, 2015 Contacts: Alicia Lloyd, Clean Water Policy Coordinator, Missouri Coalition for the Environment (314) 727-0600 x12, 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, comerfork@lclark.edu…

// By Brad Walker, Rivers Director        November 2, 2015 PDF Version Introduction The Missouri River is home to two federally listed endangered species and many more threatened and unlisted plants and animals that make up a rich and incredibly important ecosystem, which provide large, complex, but calculable services and benefits to humans. The restoration of…

Date: November 9, 2015 Contacts:  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, (314) 935-8760 St. Louis, MO: It has been four years since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) rejected Missouri’s proposed nutrient standards for lakes, and neither the…

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// By Brad Walker, Rivers Director        October 12, 2015 PDF Version This article is not pro-communism or pro-Castro. It is about objectively looking at agriculture in Cuba and maybe finding better ways to improve agriculture here. On December 17, 2014, President Obama made a speech indicating that the U.S. would be opening relationships with Cuba,…

Apparently, When it’s in Missouri! By Brad Walker, Former MCE Rivers Director        Published on August 12, 2015 Before Americans began to drain the river bottoms for farmland in the early 1900s, the wetlands connected to the Mississippi River were incredibly biodiverse. Bottomlands all along the river flooded on a regular basis, leaving…