Big Loss: Senate Kills Stream Protection Act;
Local Win: Beyond Coal Battles Utility Hikes
Don Corrigan serves up his weekly opinion about who deserves a dagger for being a foe to the environment and who deserves a daisy for being a friend of the environment.
This week: Congress and the Sierra Club
Great opportunity for industrial business owners! Small and medium-sized industrial facilities can apply for free energy, productivity, and waste assessments through the Midwest Industrial Assessment Center (Midwest IAC) at the University of Missouri – Columbia.
Below is more from a notice from the Missouri Department of Economic Development.
Len Patton (left) and Bob Campbell (right), Missouri Department of Conservation instructors, at the shotgun shell reloading seminar held at Jay Henges Shooting Range & Education Center, Feb. 21, 2017. Photos by Holly Shanks.
Event coverage by Holly Shanks
A small group gathered at Jay Henges Shooting Range and Outdoor Education Center recently to explore the basic techniques of shotgun shell reloading. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) seminar, led by Bob Campbell and Len Patton, offered a hands-on learning experience. Both men have been reloading for decades and have extensive first-hand knowledge of procedures and best practices.
Lead safety procedures were included in the seminar. Also, how the MDC handles toxic lead clean-up at Jay Henges Shooting Range are included in the story. See more of the story below.
Green Mothers Organizing For Marches In April To Support Scientists & Climate Action
Daggers & Daisies, a new weekly opinion feature of Environmental Echo, singles out friends and foes of the Earth for attention. Readers are encouraged to submit their nominees for Daggers & Daisies to environmentalecho@gmail.com.
Photo courtesy the Saint Louis Zoo.
The Saint Louis Zoo is celebrating polar bear Kali’s second International Polar Bear Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 26 at McDonnell Polar Bear Point. (The official International Polar Bear Day is Feb. 27.)
Read more from the Saint Louis Zoo Press Release about the event times and activities below.
Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Blast U.S. Senate Approval Of Pruitt To EPA
Don’s Dossier: Daggers & Daisies, a new weekly opinion feature of Environmental Echo, singles out friends and foes of the Earth for attention. Readers can submit nominees for Daggers & Daisies by emailing suggestions to environmentalecho@gmail.com.
Photo by MDC Staff, courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation.
The Missouri Department of Conservation’s Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center will present a special program, New Mammals in Missouri: Invasive, Introduced or Interlopers, Friday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. The program is free and open to ages 12 and up. Reservations are required. (See more info below.)
Keynote speaker Dr. Chip Taylor—founder and director of Monarch Watch—and five local speakers to present. Deadline for registration is March 2, 2017. Cost of the workshop, including a breakfast buffet, is $35 per person and $20 per person for students with a valid student ID.
More details from the GROW NATIVE! press release about event, speakers, and more can be found below.
Photo: Webster-Kirkwood Times.
Consumers and environmentalists were “loaded for bear” for a public hearing at the Holiday Inn Southwest in late January before the state Public Service Commission (PSC) on planned electric rate hikes by Ameren Missouri.
Environmentalists like Andy Knott of the Beyond Coal Campaign were ready with news of a Jan. 23 court decision finding Ameren in violation of the Clean Air Act at its Rush Island coal plant in Jefferson County. That plant, and the nearby Meramec Plant in Oakville, have been sources of health concerns in South County.
Photo by MDC Staff, courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation.
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) recently received DNA results from a confirmed mountain lion in Shannon County. Those results indicated the mountain lion was a female with a probable origin in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota, and Northwest Nebraska. This is the first definitive confirmation of a female mountain lion being present in Missouri since 1994.
More from the MDC press release below:
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