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Check out our new report Win a New Belgium Fat Tire Bicycle Get Your Tickets for the Tower Grove Tree Tour- May 24th Thanks for coming to LIVE GREEN or DIE March 4- You are part of the solution Tell the EPA to Clean Up the Government Thanks for Coming to 2012 Missouri Conservation Lobby Day!
 

Check out our new report – Our Future?

Missouri Coalition for the Environment, with the help of several other organizations and individuals, has completed a new report on sustainability using the Upper Mississippi River Basin as the focus area. The report takes a different, and we believe a more rational and supportable approach, to sustainability than other reports typically have. This report is [...]

Win a New Belgium Fat Tire Bicycle

  Very exciting news! We have been hand-selected by New Belgium Brewing Company to raffle off a beautiful new cruiser bicycle – New Belgium’s signature Fat Tire Bicycle. We’ll be outside the Market Pub House, 6655 Delmar Boulevard  St. Louis, MO 63130, during the Loop de Loop Grand Prix bike race on Friday, May 11. Make sure to stop by [...]

Get Your Tickets for the Tower Grove Tree Tour- May 24th

Thursday, May 24th, 2012 join MCE members and other knowledge seekers for a Tree Tour of Tower Grove Park. John Karel, Tower Grove Park’s Executive Director, will share his vast knowledge of the park’s tree species, as well as its history. Tower Grove boasts 325 varieties of trees- native and non-native- including some amazing mature [...]

Thanks for coming to LIVE GREEN or DIE March 4- You are part of the solution

We had a great Annual Meeting on March 4th and enjoyed seeing so many of our members. Thanks for signing up to volunteer to restore a watershed, fight radioactive waste, and help Missouri thrive.

Tell the EPA to Clean Up the Government’s Radioactive Mess

  The radioactive waste in the Missouri River Floodplain at the West Lake Landfill – an unlined pit with groundwater flowing underneath- should be REMOVED, CONTAINED, and MONITORED in a safer place than the Missouri River floodplain. Agree? Act now. See our West Lake page to learn how you can take action.

Thanks for Coming to 2012 Missouri Conservation Lobby Day!

Feb. 29th, More than 125 Missourians gathered at the State Capitol to help educate legislators on the importance of smart environmental policy. Environmentalists, scientists, students, business-owners, hunters, anglers and farmers attended to have an impact on environmental policies affecting Missouri.  

Renewable energy has bipartisan support: a public television interview with Rep. Zachary Wyatt (R) and Rep. Jason Holsman (D)

02 May 2012

Two state legislators were interviewed on the television show Jeff City Journal in support of renewable energy investments in our state. Rep. Zachary Wyatt (R) and Rep. Jason Holsman (D) have shown bipartisan support to fully implement Proposition C from 2008, a renewable energy ballot initiative supported by 66% of voters. Ameren Missouri used its [...]

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MCE Defends CWIP Prohibition & Challenges Nuke License Renewal

01 May 2012

In 1976, Missouri voters decided not to pay for construction of power plants until they were in operations- instead requiring shareholders who make a guaranteed profit to make the initial investments in new plants, just like with other businesses. When those investments are running our lights, utilities may then seek to recover all costs deemed prudent after [...]

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It’s Official: Judge Approves MSD Consent Decree

01 May 2012

The Consent Decree between the St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and us, was approved April 27. The Decree requires MSD to upgrade its sewer system to eliminate illegal sewer overflows into area waters, reduce basement back ups in the region, and strictly limit combined sewer overflows into the Mississippi River. The [...]

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Ameren & Westinghouse Partner to Seek Corporate Welfare for Nukes

20 April 2012

That’s not the headline on Ameren’s news release but a closer examination of the facts reveals that our headline is more accurate.  Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse will seek hundreds of millions of dollars in government money to pursue Small Modular Reactors (SMR). SMR technology is not authorized by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and it is pretty [...]

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