PRESS RELEASE Date: August 28, 2015 Contact: Heather Navarro, (314) 727-0600, hnavarro@moenviron.org AG Koster & Federal Judge Delay Clean Water Rule Implementation in Missouri St. Louis, MO: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its final Clean Water Protection Rule. The rule was meant to clarify ambiguity in the Clean Water Act that…
Read MoreThe St. Johns Bayou and New Madrid Floodway project is a waste of taxpayer’s dollars
By Brad Walker, MCE’s Former Rivers Director Published on August 17, 2015 This is MCE’s response to an August 7, 2015 article in the Southeast Missourian titled Smith adamant floodway project needs to go forward. First, let’s make it abundantly clear that the New Madrid Floodway (NMF) is a legally designated floodway. That last…
Read MoreConcern Grows About Smoldering Fire Moving Toward Radioactive Wastes at West Lake Landfill
PRESS RELEASE Date: August 17, 2015 Contact: Ed Smith, (314) 727-0600, esmith@moenviron.org Concern Grows About Smoldering Fire Moving Toward Radioactive Wastes at West Lake Landfill St. Louis, MO: On August 10, 2015, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources issued a letter to Republic Services that expressed great concern about the smoldering fire moving into the…
Read MoreEditorial: Corps of Engineers should FUSRAP-up West Lake’s toxic waste
from the St. Louis Post-DispatchAugust 9, 2015 The best solution for cleaning up radioactive waste buried at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton is to give control of the site to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The corps runs the tongue-twistingly named Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), which controls every other site in St. Louis County…
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Food in the News: Dietary Guidelines vs. Big Ag
Written by Claire Mai, Food and Farm Intern, July 8, 2015. Originally published September 22, 2015. Maddie Oatman, the senior research editor at Mother Jones magazine, posted a great article in June 2015 that we’d love to share with MCE supporters. The article, “Congress Doesn’t Think Agricultural Sustainability Has Anything to Do With Your…
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