Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIRE) DSIRE provides a comprehensive list of renewable energy and energy efficiency incentives by state. MCE suggests that homeowners and commercial building owners find out what incentives are available to increase the efficiency of your property. DSIRE lists tax credits, loan programs, rebate and much more. DSIRE…
Read MoreOur Polluted Waters
Every two years, each state is supposed to list all its streams and lakes that fail to meet water quality standards, along with the pollutants causing the impairments. The list, known as the “303(d) list” for the section of the Clean Water Act that requires it, is intended to spur states to develop and implement…
Read MoreWetlands : How nature filters and stores water
Wetlands are semi-permanently to permanently water-saturated lands that vary uniquely based on local hydrology, climate, geology, and vegetation. They act as natural filters and sponges to cleanse, store, and gradually release water into our streams, rivers, and reservoirs and are as productive as rain forests and coral reefs. Once feared as a source of disease,…
Read MoreMissouri’s Unprotected Waters
What are unclassified waters and why are they important? More than forty years after passage of the Clean Water Act, Missouri ’s unclassified waters are not even receiving the minimal protections required by the Act. Missouri ’s creeks and streams are critical parts of our large river systems. As feeder streams for our big rivers, they…
Read MorePost 1993 Floodplain Development
More than 1,000 farmland acres in the Chesterfield, MO area shown below was under up to 15 feet of water in 1993 but today (2nd photo below) a $275 million mall, longest outdoor strip mall in America, has been constructed there, protected by a 500-year flood levee. The project was built utilizing government tax increment financing; intended…
Read MoreMaking Room for the River
The Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE) has been working to preserve the natural value of Missouri’s floodplains for over 40 years. Lawsuits filed by MCE resulted in a consent agreement forcing the Corps of Engineers to regulate navigable waters up primary tributaries to the ordinary high water mark. MCE was critical in the effort…
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