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Ameren - Coal Ash
6:00 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

Protesters Urge State To Test Groundwater For Coal Ash Contamination Near Ameren Power Plants

Credit Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
Protesters join in an anti-coal ash chant outside Ameren headquarters in St. Louis.
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A small but vocal group of protesters gathered outside Ameren Missouri's headquarters in St. Louis today to voice their opposition to the company's plans to build several new coal ash landfills.

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Air Pollution - Diesel
5:46 pm
Tue June 19, 2012

Local tugboats to run cleaner with help of federal grant

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Credit Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
The tugboat MSY Dorothy will get cleaner-burning engines this summer, paid for in part by a grant to JB Marine Service, Inc., from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Credit Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks uses an acetylene torch to help destroy an old tugboat engine, with the help of John Parrentt of JB Marine Service, Inc.
Credit Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks (left) and JB Marine Service, Inc., CFO David Heyl talk in the engine room of the tugboat Helen Virginia. In the foreground is one of the new, lower-emission engines.
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Some Mississippi River tugboats will be getting an upgrade thanks to a federal grant aimed at reducing air pollution.

The more than $300,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency will go toward new, cleaner-burning diesel engines for the tugboats.

One of those boats was on view this morning at JB Marine Service, Inc., the barge cleaning and repair company that received the EPA grant.

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Pollution Cleanup
5:36 pm
Thu May 24, 2012

St. Louis to get $400,000 from EPA to clean up polluted sites

Credit (Amy Lampe/SLDC)
Some of the EPA funding will go toward the cleanup of underground storage tanks, like this one at 4266 McRee Ave. in St. Louis. This cleanup was undertaken by the Garden District Commission with funding from the EPA and the Brownfields Cleanup Fund.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $400,000 in grants to the St. Louis Development Corporation. The funds will be used to assess and plan for cleaning up hazardous substances.

EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks says the Agency has a long history of working with the SLDC to clean up contaminated properties, also known as brownfields.

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