// By Brad Walker, Rivers Director January 5, 2015 PDF Version The issue of 2011 flooding was in the news again, initiated by a 10-10-14 St. Louis Post-dispatch article by Robert Schneiders criticizing the recent Missouri River farmers’ lawsuit against the Corps, a lawsuit that alleges improper river management had caused unnecessary flooding. A response…
Read MoreRiver Barge Industry Vies for Subsidy Leadership with Space Travel
// By Brad Walker, Rivers Director December 17, 2014 Two-thousand-fourteen has been a very good year for the most subsidized mode of freight transport in the U.S. – river barges. Phase 1 of their bailout was initiated in the 2014 Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) with a fleecing of the taxpayers for…
Read MoreNew Madrid Fight Continues
By Brad Walker, MCE’s Former Rivers Director Published on December 16, 2014 December 16, 2014 Contacts: Lacey McCormick, NWF – 512.610.7765 mccormick@nwf.org Brad Walker, MCE – 314.727.0600 x. 13 bwalker@moenviron.org Diverse Coalition Asks Obama To Veto Destructive, Wasteful Levee Stopping proposed Missouri levee is “a civil rights issue.” $165 million project would increase flood risk in…
Read MoreNRC Delays Callaway Nuclear License Extension
NRC Delays Callaway Nuclear License Extension On December 10, 2014, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission delayed the license extension of Ameren Missouri’s Callaway 1 nuclear reactor. The temporary delay is a result of MCE’s request for a hearing with the NRC. MCE applauds the NRC’s decision not rush the license extension given the pending legality of its…
Read MoreMCE’s Efforts Continue to Reduce Carbon Pollution and Increase Renewable Energy!
Thank you for your support of decreased carbon pollution and increased renewable energy! We want to give a big Thank You to all the individuals who submitted comments and to all the supporting environmental, faith-based, and health-based organizations who signed onto our letters of organizational support for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. We submitted all…
Read MoreSt. Louis Foodshed Study Evaluates the Evolution of Industrial Food Production
Review of Agriculture data from 1925-2007 within a 100-mile radius of St. Louis St. Louis, MO: A new report called the St. Louis Regional Food Study was released today by the Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE). The study analyzes the impacts of industrial agriculture on our diet, health, and environment. MCE looked at 59…
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