by admin | Jan 11, 2003 | News
The Environmental Protection Agency is offering to give Missouri money to keep the state’s water-quality certification program up and running through the end of the fiscal year. The EPA’s rescue package was announced as the state Department of Natural...
by admin | Dec 5, 2002 | News
A tire dump in Pettis County, estimated to contain 80,000 tires, is being cleaned up by minimum-security inmates – part of a program that has recycled 2.3-Million tires in the past seven years. Department of Corrections spokesman Tim Kniest says the Department...
by admin | Nov 19, 2002 | News
An Arkansas-based company that handles medical waste is the target of the Natural Resources Department, which accuses it of violating environmental rules. A company representative has been arrested after DNR investigators learned some medical waste had been shipped...
by admin | Nov 19, 2002 | News
A proposed $85-Million dollar flood control project for the Bootheel has been rejected by the state because federal agencies can’t resolve their disagrements about the plan’s impact on the environment. The Corps of Engineers has been asking for state...
by admin | Oct 3, 2002 | News
Whether the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers should be on a list of polluted rivers compiled by the State Department of Natural Resources will be decided by the State Supreme Court. The Missouri Soybean Association, Missouri Ag Industries, Associated Industries of...
