This Missouri Legislative session was marked by several emerging environmental issues. The nationwide proliferation of AI hyperscale data centers sparked 6 bills in the Missouri Legislature, with regulatory frameworks proposed by both houses and both parties. For the first time, legislators considered the State’s failure to address its 29 abandoned landfills. The House General Laws…
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The federal government has repealed the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding, the scientific foundation, built over decades of research, that established greenhouse gases as a real danger to public health. Gone with it: emission limits on vehicles and other sources of pollution that have protected our air for more than a decade. MCE, alongside Metropolitan Congregations…
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Foundational Rights at Risk
Missouri Coalition for the Environment depends on free speech, peaceful assembly, free and fair elections, and a functioning democracy to advocate for Missourians and our environment. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) practices—including the killing of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez and Renee Nicole Good, dozens of deaths in ICE custody, and the harming of many others—threatens our civil…
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Our Park Is Not for Sale!
by Margaret Hermes, longtime MCE Member Our Park Is Not for Sale has to be one of the best campaign slogans ever. And, boy, did it work! In 2007, 69.74% of the voters in the April 3 municipal election of St. Louis City approved a change to the City charter so that no St. Louis park…
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Senate Bill 4 Explained
During the 2025 session, the Missouri Legislature passed Senate Bill 4 (or SB4), which – among other things – introduced new accounting mechanisms through which utility companies in our state can more quickly raise their rates. SB4 also included some provisions relating to “large load consumers,” which include hyper-scale data centers and large scale manufacturers….
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An Environmental Justice Case Against ICL’s Expansion in North Riverfront
By Maxine Gill, MCE Policy Coordinator Background Israel Chemicals Ltd., known also as ICL Specialty Products or simply ICL, has sited a new manufacturing facility in the North Riverfront neighborhood of St. Louis City– a neighborhood with some of the highest hospitalization rates from asthma in the city. This facility is a part of the…
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