Clean Water Act Archives - Missouri Coalition for the Environment

Feb 1, 2022

Restoring the Clean Water Act In November 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army announced the...

Apr 15, 2019

The Missouri Coalition for the Environment opposes the EPA’s 2019 revised definition of “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS). We...

Mar 15, 2019

What’s at Stake? In December 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army proposed a revised...

Mar 1, 2019

March 1, 2019 As part of the Clean Water Act, all states are required to review their water quality standards...

Jan 31, 2019

MCE advocates for nutrient pollution protections on our lakes, rivers, and streams. MCE settled a lawsuit on 12/7/16 against the USEPA...

Jan 31, 2019

The Clean Water Act (303(c)(2)(a)) states “water quality standards shall serve the purposes of the [Act] and consider the use...

Jan 31, 2019

Every two years, each state is supposed to list all of its streams and lakes that fail to meet water...

Jan 31, 2019

What are unclassified waters and why are they important? More than forty years after passage of the Clean Water Act,...

Jun 1, 2018

Lakes Survey for MCE Members MCE wants to know more about how our members use Missouri lakes. We depend on...

Aug 1, 2017

August 2017 Factory Farms are undermining our rights to clean water and air. The Clean Water Commission is a 7-member citizens’ board...