Missouri is preparing to cap and remove 238 abandoned oil wells, almost all of them in Vernon County. Chris Wood is the Oil and Gas Unit Chief with the Department of Natural Resources. “We’ll go through, and we will plug those wells and we will remove all the...
The Environmental Protection Agency wants water and wastewater plants across the U.S. to scan their networks for cyber-attacks. Lance Dorsey, with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, joins Alisa Nelson to discuss the message they are sending to plants across...
The new Missouri Drought and Mitigation Response Plan is now complete after more than two years of study and development. Marshall Griffin is with the Surface Water Section Chief, Michael Weller, from the Missouri Department of Natural Resource’s Water Resource...
One Missouri state agency has developed a strategy for combatting drought conditions. The Department of Natural Resources has released its Drought Mitigation and Response Plan, within days of Gov. Mike Parson declaring a drought alert. Michael Weller is surface water...
The 2022 drought is affecting all corners of the state, especially Missouri’s farmlands. The latest meeting of the state’s drought assessment committee was held on Sept. 16 in Jefferson City. Jennifer Hoggatt, deputy director of the Missouri Geological Survey, says...
