// By Brad Walker, Rivers Director September 4, 2014 For those not familiar with the Water Resources Development Act, it is the legislation that authorizes the Corps of Engineers’ work on the major rivers of our nation. WRDAs have been enacted since 1974 and were the evolution of what was called the River and Harbor…
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Clean Power Plan Release
Missouri Stakeholders Support State Effort to Develop Clean Power Plan For immediate release: July 14, 2014 Missouri Stakeholders Support State Effort to Develop Clean Power Plan State begins process to implement plan to reduce carbon pollution Contact: Heather Navarro, Missouri Coalition for the Environment 314.808.4345, hnavarro@moenviron.org JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Key stakeholders will attend a Missouri Department…
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// By Brad Walker, Rivers Director July 11, 2014 Illustrations and other contributions by Joe Mohr Full Article (pdf) 1. Introduction – What we have wrought on our Midwestern rivers Row crop agriculture has always been intricately tied to the promotion of barge navigation on our large Midwestern rivers, primarily for exporting corn, wheat and…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SOLAR GROUPS FILE LAWSUIT TO PRESERVE SOLAR REBATES IN MISSOURI St. Louis, MO (June 24, 2014) – On June 23, 2014, Save Our Lawfully Authorized Rebates, LLC (“SOLAR”) and the Missouri Coalition for the Environment (“MCE”) filed a lawsuit in Cole County Circuit Court against the Missouri Public Service Commission (“PSC”) asking the…
Read MoreAmendment 7 is a Dead End
Thank you to everyone who helped defeat Amendment 7! One thing all Missourians can get behind is the ability to get from one place to another safely. Whether the commute is twenty minutes or two hours, our livelihoods depend on us being able to get our families, our employees, and our goods from one place…
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