When people ask how change happens, they often picture a single lawsuit, election, or protest. But real environmental victories in Missouri tell a different story. They start with neighbors talking.They grow when organizations share tools instead of guarding them.They win when communities build power together. At the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, we see it…
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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The federal government has repealed the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding, the scientific foundation, built over decades of research, that established greenhouse gases as a real danger to public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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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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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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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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