Date: September 17, 2015 Contacts: Alicia Lloyd, Clean Water Policy Coordinator, Missouri Coalition for the Environment (314) 727-0600 x. 12, 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, comerfordl@lclark.edu Environmental Group Reveals Worlds of Fun is Polluting the Missouri River Kansas City, MO: The Missouri Coalition…
Read MoreAG Koster & Federal Judge Delay Clean Water Rule Implementation in Missouri
PRESS RELEASE Date: August 28, 2015 Contact: Heather Navarro, (314) 727-0600, hnavarro@moenviron.org AG Koster & Federal Judge Delay Clean Water Rule Implementation in Missouri St. Louis, MO: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its final Clean Water Protection Rule. The rule was meant to clarify ambiguity in the Clean Water Act that…
Read MoreThe St. Johns Bayou and New Madrid Floodway project is a waste of taxpayer’s dollars
By Brad Walker, MCE’s Former Rivers Director Published on August 17, 2015 This is MCE’s response to an August 7, 2015 article in the Southeast Missourian titled Smith adamant floodway project needs to go forward. First, let’s make it abundantly clear that the New Madrid Floodway (NMF) is a legally designated floodway. That last…
Read More“Our Future?” plus 3
// By Brad Walker, Rivers Director July 14, 2015 PDF Version MCE released the Our Future? Report in April 2012. Three years later, we are still headed down a precarious path. The report continues to be an accurate description of what is needed to move to real sustainability. Several of the major problems identified…
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Everyone lives in a watershed What is a watershed? Why is what we do on land crucial to clean water? A watershed includes all of the life-sustaining connections and interconnection that provide us with clean, useable water. The most fundamental of these connections is the mutual relationship between land and water. Every land area drains into…
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