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Environmental Issues and Protection

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    St. Louis Earth Day 2012: The Slideshow

    Getting ready for Earth Day 2012 we were sure that with all that hoopla flooding Forest Park, there was bound to be an equal amount of garbage: a sea of half-eaten corn dogs, stale nachos, melted cotton candy and crumpled paper cups. Turns out we were wrong. Those pesky Earth Day volunteers had set ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    The Music of the Nation's Third Largest Earth Day Festival, This Sunday in Forest Park

    Music and environmentally geared celebrations seem like a good fit. They bring people together, and both have been described at one point or another as hippie activities. The brains behind St. Louis's Earth Day Festival know this. The festival -- the third largest of its kind in the country -- begin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2012

    A Convenient Truth

    Music and environmentally geared celebrations seem like a good fit. They bring people together, and both have been described at one point or another as hippie activities. The brains behind St. Louis's Earth Day Festival know this. The festival -- the third largest of its kind in the country -- begin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    St. Louis County Residents Forced to Pay For Recycling After Court Loss

    Paying for recycling services is not optional, says the Missouri Appellate Court.​A group of St. Louis County residents has lost another round in its effort to opt out of a recycling service -- and the quarterly fees that go with it.Today's appeals court decision is the latest (and possibly final) ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2011

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

    Paying for recycling services is not optional, says the Missouri Appellate Court.​A group of St. Louis County residents has lost another round in its effort to opt out of a recycling service -- and the quarterly fees that go with it.Today's appeals court decision is the latest (and possibly final) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Hercules Agrees to $245K EPA Fine Over Clean Air Act Violations

    ​A chemical manufacturing plant in Louisiana, Missouri, just north of St. Louis, failed to properly monitor for leaks of hazardous air pollutants, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency charges -- leading to a $245,521 fine. The settlement was filed in federal court this morning, four years ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Jury: Former Owners of Doe Run Lead Smelter Must Pay Families $38 Million

    Photo: Jennifer SilverbergWarnings outside the Doe Run smelter in Herculaneum.​A trial lasting three months wrapped up today in St. Louis Circuit Court with a jury awarding 16 plaintiffs $38.5 million in compensatory damages for lead poisoning they sustained living next to a Herculaneum smelter. M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    St. Louis to Get Hotter, Wetter, NRDC Report Says

    Floods, like the one that took acres of farmland along the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers this spring, will become even more common, the NRDC warns.​A new report from the National Resources Defense Council predicts all sorts of holy hell triggered by climate change, and St. Louis is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Ameren Fired Contractor for Flagging Environmental Violations, Lawsuit Says

    ​A lawsuit filed on behalf of a local plumbing contractor alleges the company lost its contract with utility giant Ameren -- after the contractor informed Ameren management of violations of environmental law and illegal discharge of pollutants.The suit was filed by Bishop & Associates, owned b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    What on Earth!? St. Louis Earth Day Festival is Huge! (Who Knew?)

    stlouisearthday.org​Check out a video of St. Louis Earth Day at the end of this post.We here at Daily RFT are usually out in the backyard burning garbage whenever the St. Louis Earth Day Festival comes along. This year was an exception. Someone tricked us into thinking we were going to a livestock ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    St. Louis Ranked Eighth Most Toxic City

    ​A report out yesterday ranks metropolitan St. Louis as one of the most "toxic" (i.e. polluted) cities in the nation. The study by Forbes.com looked at cities based on five factors: air quality, water quality, the number of nearby Superfund sites, amount of days when the air-quality index (AQI) ex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Missouri Congressman Wants to Kill Funding for Climate Change

    Luetkemeyer: Insert tinfoil hat above.​Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-9th District) is proud of his view that global warming is a myth. So proud, in fact, that last weekend he attached a provision onto a budget bill that would ban the United States from funding the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    Let's Get Lit: City Offers Free Light Bulbs as Ameren Gets Sued

    ​This just in from City Hall: On Jan. 17, 6,000 lucky St. Louisans will be the recipients of brand new eco-friendly light bulbs. Mayor Slay is scheduled to appear at a press conference this afternoon to announce a new initiative touting energy consumption, co-sponsored by Ameren Missouri. As ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 30, 2010

    Hot Enough For You?

    ​This just in from City Hall: On Jan. 17, 6,000 lucky St. Louisans will be the recipients of brand new eco-friendly light bulbs. Mayor Slay is scheduled to appear at a press conference this afternoon to announce a new initiative touting energy consumption, co-sponsored by Ameren Missouri. As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    John Shimkus: Ass Clown of the Week

    In clowns we trust -- God help us.​Congressman John Shimkus has won his second election of the month. On November 2 voters in southwestern Illinois elected the Republican from Collinsville to his seventh term in Congress.  And, over the weekend, Daily RFT voted Shimkus their Ass Clown of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Congressman Shimkus Says His Quote on Global Warming and God Taken Out of Context

    Rep. John Shimkus: Dinosaurs loved carbon, too. ​The man who wants to be chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee overseeing the nation's environmental regulation says a comment he made in a hearing last year was taken out of context. The Republican from Collinsville, Illinois, was speakin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    EPA: Factory Explosion in Venice Caused "Significant Environmental Concern"

    The red circle shows Magnesium Elektron's facility on the border of Venice and Madison in a residential area. ​The residents of Venice, Illinois, claim that the massive factory on the north side of their town, across the river from St. Louis on State Route 3, has been poisoning them for decades. N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Wash. U. Building Among World's Greenest

    image viaIt's alive!!! Sorry, it's just a Living Building.​The Living Learning Center at Washington University's Tyson Research Center has just been designated one of the first the first two Living Buildings by the International Living Building Institute (ILBI), the most rigorous green buildi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Wash U. Students Want University to Come Clean on Coal Research

    Image viaBy contrast, coal accounts for more than 80 percent of Missouri's energy. ​For many environmentalists, the phrase "clean coal" is a contradiction in terms on par with military intelligence and jumbo shrimp. But to the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    St. Louis To Begin Curbside Recycling Citywide, Part of Paid Trash Collection

    Coming to a neighborhood near you!​Just got off the phone with a couple of city officials who tell Daily RFT that St. Louis is indeed going forward with curbside recycling. The recycling service will be part of the new pay service for trash pickup that the city is implementing to offset budget sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Going the Opposite of Green: Chesterfield Recycling Center That Annoyed Neighbors is Set to Close

    Image courtesy of Margaret Bour Common Chesterfield recyclables​Last October, the RFT detailed a neighborhood dispute between the Parkway School District and the residents of a white-collar subdivision in Chesterfield. The school district said it recycled more than 1,300 tons of trash each ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms: The Supreme Court Rules, Everyone Claims Victory

    Image viaEven Alfalfa is smiling about yesterday's ruling on alfalfa.​Gut Check hasn't read much case law since our high-school debate career ended and our briefcase (and trophies!) went into storage in our parents' garage. However, we were fairly certain that when the Supreme Court issued a rulin ... More >>

  • News

    June 16, 2010

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

    Image viaEven Alfalfa is smiling about yesterday's ruling on alfalfa.​Gut Check hasn't read much case law since our high-school debate career ended and our briefcase (and trophies!) went into storage in our parents' garage. However, we were fairly certain that when the Supreme Court issued a rulin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Colin Beaven, the Man Who Lived Without Electricity in Manhattan, Speaks Tonight at Schlafly Branch of St. Louis Public Library

    Image: Copyright CyberStern.comColin Beaven will be at the Schlafly Branch of St. Louis Public Library tonight.​Not content with just biking to work or going on a recycling crusade, Colin Beavan, author of No Impact Man lived for a year in the strictest green lifestyle. That meant eating organical ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    St. Louis to Resume Twice Weekly Trash Pick Up; Considering Curbside Recycling

    'Cause we don't want our alleys looking like this.​Mayor Francis Slay's office today announced that St. Louis is resuming twice-weekly trash pick up effective immediately. In an effort to save money, the city began a trial once-a-week trash pick up program last November that affected about 40 per ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Jonathan Katz: Wash U Prof Tapped By Obama to Solve Gulf Oil Crisis is "Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist"

    Image sourceJonathan Katz describes himself as "a homophobe and proud"​Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz is part of a five-man team of the nation's "best scientific minds" assembled by the Obama administration to help BP stem the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. He' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Joe Washington of Northeast Ambulance & Fire District Sentenced for Clean Air Violations

    Joe Washington​The former chief of the Northeast Ambulance & Fire Protection District was sentenced today to one year of probation for violating the Clean Air Act.Joe Washington pleaded guilty in December for violating EPA regulations when he had asbestos removed last year from the fire distri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Global Warming & Meteorologists: A "Hot" Topic?

    reedypress.comCorrigan says everything in Missouri is political, even the weather. ​Is global warming real?Finally, somebody has asked the experts. Thank you, Don Corrigan, editor and co-publisher of the Webster-Kirkwood and South County Times newspapers. In his new book, Show Me Nature's Wrath, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Doe Run Lead Smelter Continues to Contaminate Herculaneum

    The report from the Environmental Protection Agency is hardly shocking. Yesterday the agency released test results indicating that as many as one-third of properties situated within a mile of the company's lead smelter in Herculaneum contain lead at levels exceeding 400 parts per million (ppm) -- th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Lawyer for Metropolitan Sewer District is Married to EPA Official Who is Suing Agency

    The Kansas City Star has a curious story out today involving an ethical quandary that could impact a lawsuit filed against the Metropolitan Sewer District. shb.comTerry SatterleeThe paper reports that the Kansas City attorney representing MSD, Terry Satterlee, is the wife of, Bill Rice, the head of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    "If You Ever Eat Pickled Eggs and Drink Beer, It Smells Worse Than Them Kind of Farts."

    flickr.com/photos/cottergarageA Granite City sunrise.Parts of Madison County, Illinois, have the second-most poisonous air in the country, according to a new report issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. Most alarming was one particular Granite City neighborhood, located near U.S. Steel Corp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2009

    Gang Green

    flickr.com/photos/cottergarageA Granite City sunrise.Parts of Madison County, Illinois, have the second-most poisonous air in the country, according to a new report issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. Most alarming was one particular Granite City neighborhood, located near U.S. Steel Corp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2009

    Happy Earth Day

    flickr.com/photos/cottergarageA Granite City sunrise.Parts of Madison County, Illinois, have the second-most poisonous air in the country, according to a new report issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. Most alarming was one particular Granite City neighborhood, located near U.S. Steel Corp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 15, 2009

    Earthly Pursuits

    flickr.com/photos/cottergarageA Granite City sunrise.Parts of Madison County, Illinois, have the second-most poisonous air in the country, according to a new report issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. Most alarming was one particular Granite City neighborhood, located near U.S. Steel Corp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 20, 2008

    Every Breath You Take

    Let your lungs do the talking

  • Calendar

    August 6, 2008

    Fig-get Me Not

    Love of food improves the world

  • News

    November 8, 2006

    What, a Dump?

    Environmentalists decry the expansion of a gigantic Illinois landfill.

  • Calendar

    July 5, 2006

    Hot Hot Heat

    Combat it with cool, cool ice

  • News

    February 22, 2006

    Trash Talk

    St. Louis is way behind the recycling curve. Don't expect that to change.

  • News

    February 7, 2001

    Invasion of the Swiss

    Proposed cement plant in Ste. Genevieve would be foreign to our lungs

  • News

    January 17, 2001

    Cementing a Deal

    A giant quarry and the world's largest cement kiln are being welcomed by Ste. Genevieve County. But the operation may leave St. Louis gasping for air.

  • News

    December 20, 2000

    Trash Talk

    From the top of Mount Milam to the depths of the Pit with the people who take out St. Louis' garbage

  • News

    June 21, 2000

    Getting Burned

    A North St. Louis medical-waste incinerator has spewed dioxin for a decade. Nearby residents say it's time to fight the fire.

  • News

    November 3, 1999

    PETER AND THE WOLF

    Why Missouri Botanical Garden's Peter Raven, world-renowned environmentalist, courts Monsanto's favor, boosts its biotech and takes its money

  • News

    August 25, 1999

    A LOAD OF SCRAP

    Tony Ribaudo's failed effort in the scrap-iron business leaves the former state lawmaker and mayoral candidate with citations for illegal dumping and a $28,000 debt to the city

  • News

    March 3, 1999

    Clearing the Air

    Challenged by pro-business groups more interested in profit than in clean air, attorney Lewis C. Green fights to make the government enforce its own air-quality standards

  • News

    November 25, 1998

    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.

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