Environmental Justice

A St. Louis environmental group wants to help urban farmers in north St. Louis and north St. Louis County monitor air quality. Climate Changents are placing air monitoring machines that test fine particulate matter on urban farms and schools.

Healthy trees not only beautify neighborhoods, they promote better health outcomes for residents.

A new Missouri Botanical Garden exhibition examines the complex relationship between sound and plants.

Starting this month, the utility company said the bill for the typical Metro East customer will rise $52 a month ($626 a year) because the cost of generating it is much higher.

“The new green economy can be as exclusive and as unjust as the old one,” said the Rev. Rodrick Burton. He and others want local residents to decide how the region responds to climate change.

Earth Day is back in Forest Park after a two-year hiatus, and Sierra Club partner Leah Clyburn is among the sustainability award nominees.

Three decades ago, the Shawnee National Forest was the focus of fierce battles over commercial logging on public lands. A new documentary revisits that history and calls attention to new efforts to preserve the forest.

The coal ash basins at Labadie Energy Center contain 15 million cubic yards of waste, the largest volume of Ameren’s four coal-fired power plants in Missouri.

Over the next two years, the Nature Conservancy in Missouri will plant 100 trees in parts of north St. Louis County to help reduce air pollution and flooding.

Metropolitan Congregations United and engineering researchers at the Washington University are working with several churches in north and south St. Louis to measure air quality in areas with high amounts of pollution.