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Read MoreMCE Young Friends
Get involved today and join MCE as a Young Friend! MCE Young Friends are young professionals, students, and recent graduates who care about making Missouri a cleaner, healthier, and safer place to live, work, and enjoy. We know it takes a while to pay back loans and to get a life established on your own…
Read MoreJust What is a Plutocracy and How Can We Buy One?
// By Brad Walker, Rivers Director January 15, 2015 PDF Version You might wonder why an environmental organization wants you to know about and support a constitutional amendment that – on the face of it – has nothing to do with the environment.To be effective on environmental issues, the Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE)…
Read MoreA River of Special Interests Entitlement
// By Brad Walker, Rivers Director January 5, 2015 PDF Version The issue of 2011 flooding was in the news again, initiated by a 10-10-14 St. Louis Post-dispatch article by Robert Schneiders criticizing the recent Missouri River farmers’ lawsuit against the Corps, a lawsuit that alleges improper river management had caused unnecessary flooding. A response…
Read MoreRiver Barge Industry Vies for Subsidy Leadership with Space Travel
// By Brad Walker, Rivers Director December 17, 2014 Two-thousand-fourteen has been a very good year for the most subsidized mode of freight transport in the U.S. – river barges. Phase 1 of their bailout was initiated in the 2014 Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) with a fleecing of the taxpayers for…
Read MoreNew Madrid Fight Continues
By Brad Walker, MCE’s Former Rivers Director Published on December 16, 2014 December 16, 2014 Contacts: Lacey McCormick, NWF – 512.610.7765 mccormick@nwf.org Brad Walker, MCE – 314.727.0600 x. 13 bwalker@moenviron.org Diverse Coalition Asks Obama To Veto Destructive, Wasteful Levee Stopping proposed Missouri levee is “a civil rights issue.” $165 million project would increase flood risk in…
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