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…
Read MoreNew EPA Rule to Clarify Water Protections
*EPA finalized the Clean Water Protection Rule* Thank you for commenting on the Clean Water Act Rulemaking! This rule is urgently needed to guarantee clean water and healthier streams and wetlands. In an important development, a new federal rule has been proposed that will assure clean water protections for some of our most important streams and wetlands. Recently, there…
Read MoreCorps Lawsuit May 2014
Environmental Groups Sue Army Corps of Engineers Last Thursday, May 22nd, MCE, and 5 other environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers to protect the Upper Mississippi River System. The suit challenges the Corps’ reliance on an outdated Environmental Impact Statement for its operation and maintenance (O & M) activities on…
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