Special thanks to our allies at Missouri Parks Assoc. UPDATE: The House passed the budget with the $6 million appropriations. We must now contact Missouri senators who will consider the proposed budget next. (Jefferson City) — The House Budget Committee this week is considering a proposed appropriation of $6 million from “surplus revenue fund” and…
Read MoreThe Faulty Flood Forecast of Favored Special Interests
// Written by Brad Walker, MCE Rivers Director How regulations save money, create jobs and protect the public You have all probably noticed this phenomenon; Americans (or at least a portion of us) are always going to war. I am not speaking of those actual wars we have had over the last couple of decades…
Read MoreMCE Applauds Federally Elected Officials’ Support for Corps of Engineers at the Radioactive West Lake Landfill
St. Louis, MO – Senator Blunt, Senator McCaskill, Congressman Clay and Congresswoman Wagner sent a letter on February 28, 2014, to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7. The letter requested: That the EPA contract directly with the Army Corps of Engineers to handle any and all remediation needed at the site. That the Corps…
Read MoreShould our trade policy ensure greed trumps good?
// Written by Brad Walker, Rivers Director       December 17, 2013 PDF Version A new trade agreement that has been negotiated in secret for seven years called the Trans Pacific Partnership or TPP began to emerge out of the shadows last month. The few, leaked portions of the TPP have enraged citizens across the planet because…
Read MoreEnd the Expense of Repeating Failure: Fix the River
// Written by Brad Walker, Rivers Director       December 6, 2013 When special interests wanted to narrow, dam, shorten and channelize our rivers for their benefit they never had any problem with spending the public’s money with reckless abandon and without regard for any natural resource or fiscal consequences. Those barge, grain, chemical and coal interests…
Read MoreDepression Decisions: Bad Decision Driver?
// Written by Brad Walker, Rivers Director       November 26, 2013 Ever since the “Great Recession” began in 2009 I have wondered whether it might affect the making of important policy decisions. There is some precedence for concern when we look back on some decisions made during the Great Depression, especially regarding large-scale projects. Dams built…
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