Clean Water Act

Walmart Improperly Dumped Hazardous Waste in Missouri, Must Pay $82 Million

Officials with Walmart pleaded guilty this week to mishandling hazardous materials at retail stores in Missouri and California -- and as a result will have to pay a total of more than $110 million in fines to resolve these cases. The company, authorities say, violated a slew of federal and state env ... More >>

Mississippi River Second-Most Polluted In Nation According to Environmental Study

​Environment America yesterday released Wasting Our Waterways, its comprehensive report on the health of the nation's waterways, and there's good news and bad news for Missouri.The good news is that Missouri ranked 28th on its overall toxic discharges in rivers and streams. There's definitely room ... More >>

Swimming the River des Peres: Daredevil Affects EPA Policy on St. Louis River

Doe Run Settles with EPA: Lead Company to Close Herculaneum Smelter, Spend Millions

Photo: Jennifer SilverbergDoe Run smelter in Herculaneum.​The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that St. Louis-based Doe Run -- North America's largest lead producer -- has agreed to spend approximately $65 million to correct violations of environmental laws at ten of its lead mining ... More >>

Missouri Coalition for the Environment Sues EPA Over State's Notorious Poop Chutes

Missouri Coalition for the EnvironmentPeruque Creek running through Warren and St. Charles counties is an example of an "unclassified" waterway.​The Missouri Coalition for the Environment filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday in federal court in Jefferson City alleging t ... More >>

MSD Blames Barge, Flood Debris For Misssissippi River Craptastrophe

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Sewer District says the potentially massive leak of human urine and feces from a waste water treatment plant into the Mississippi River that started last Thursday was caused by a barge that struck a fence near the lift station by Jefferson Barracks in south St. Louis ... More >>

Missouri's E. coli problems are not confined to the Lake of the Ozarks

Somebody Dumped 600 Dead Chickens into Rural Missouri Creek

Image viaNot something you'd wanna see on a float trip​Gross. Both the Barry County Sheriff's office and two state agencies -- the Departments of Natural Resources and also Agriculture -- are looking into this nasty deed, which occurred last weekend (The Joplin Globe ran a story about it yesterday ... More >>

EPA: Missouri Company "Fresh and Clean Restrooms" Is Not So Fresh or Clean

Sludge: Not just for breakfast anymore.​The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday it has issued an order against Fresh and Clean Restrooms for failure to apply sewage sludge in compliance with Clean Water Act regulations. According to the EPA, the porta-potty company from southeast Mis ... More >>

How Do You Like Your Oysters?: This Valentine's weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come

A Cheney Link to St. Louis

Published the week of July 26-August 1, 2000

Water Wrongs

William Least Heat-Moon tests the current state of America's rivers

The Low Road

Hazelwood officials cast their lot with the developer of a controversial project in the flood-prone Missouri Bottoms. Their gamble is tearing the North County community apart.

Of Wetlands and Wal-Marts

One development at a time, Missouri has lost 87 percent of its wetlands. And that means more floods, more damage, more levees, more bucks. The story of one Supercenter and how progress comes at a price.