PRESS RELEASE Date: June 9, 2017 Contact: Melissa Vatterott, mvatterott@moenviron.org Alderwoman Cara Spencer, spencerc@stlouis-mo.gov Alderwoman Christine Ingrassia, ingrassiac@stlouis-mo.gov St. Louis, MO: The St. Louis Food Policy Coalition strongly supports changing urban agriculture policies that will promote food security, increase nutritious food, and expand economic opportunities for people throughout the city. “Our citywide survey found widespread…
Read MoreChesterfield Sports Complex in MO River floodplain won’t happen, City remains non-compliant with mitigation for prior wetland destruction
by Alicia Claire Lloyd 6/6/17 UPDATE: On Friday, December 23, we received notice that the City of Chesterfield applied to overdevelop even more of the floodplain they should have never paved in the first place. The timeline for comments was excessively short given the holiday. On June 6, 2017, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that…
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2017 American Society of Civil Engineers Report Card Fraught with Errors
This article was written for the Nicollet Island Coalition PDF Version By Brad Walker, Rivers Director May 22, 2017 The 2017 Infrastructure Report Card was recently released by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a cursory review leaves me to wonder, who is editing this thing? Is anyone looking critically at making sure…
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Supreme Court Lets Stand Obstruction of State Renewable Energy Law
For release: April 26, 2017 Contacts: Henry Roberts, Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, 314.231.4181 – www.greatriverslaw.org Heather Navarro, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, 314.727.0600 x. 110 – www.moenvironment.org On April 25, 2017, the Missouri Supreme Court refused an opportunity to enforce the state’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES), passed by voters in the 2008 election as…
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