FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: December 20, 2017 Contacts: Alicia Lloyd, Clean Water Policy Coordinator, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, alloyd@moenviron.org Peter Goode, Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic Engineer, pwgoode@wustl.edu Heather Navarro, Executive Director, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, hnavarro@moenviron.org St. Louis, MO: President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is considering the implementation of a Missouri…
Read MoreSurvey Results Indicate New Policies Needed to Support Urban Agriculture in St. Louis City
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: December 13, 2017 Contact: Melissa Vatterott, (314) 581-0561, mvatterott@moenviron.org Survey Results Indicate New Policies Needed to Support Urban Agriculture in St. Louis City St. Louis, MO: Onsite sales of produce and eggs, allowing for more backyard chickens, and making it easier for city residents to purchase land for food production purposes are some of the recommended…
Read MorePesticides
What are pesticides? It is hard to imagine modern agriculture without pesticides, but agriculture’s dependence on these substances can have a impacts on our water’s safety. Pesticides are “any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plant or animal life that are considered to be pests”[1]. This includes herbicides which control weeds,…
Read MoreIce Rink Development Will Not Come to St. Louis Creve Coeur Park
11/13/17 UPDATE: A proposal to construct a hockey complex in St. Louis County’s Creve CoeurLake Memorial Park which would have converted 40 acres of parkland in the floodplain to a massive hockey complex was called off Friday, Nov. 10th. The Post-Dispatch reported on the developers’ decision to rethink their plan to develop in the park in favor of another site…
Read MoreNot so Strange Bedfellows: Reflections on the Democracy Convention
Not so Strange Bedfellows: Reflections on the Democracy Convention by Caitlin Zera The Annual Democracy Convention, hosted by Move to Amend and some other thirty convening/sponsoring organizations, represents a dedicated group of stakeholders who acknowledge that a main catalyst for social change in our country is the need to restore our democratic process. In recent…
Read MoreMCE Request Prompts EPA Release of 17,000+ Pages of Draft Documents
Ed Smith: Policy Director 11-6-17 The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a vital tool MCE uses to request documents from the federal government related to its activities and our environment. MCE has made several FOIA requests related to the radioactive West Lake Landfill Superfund site in St. Louis County over many years, specifically to…
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