Missouri Department of Natural Resources

Missouri and Illinois are among dozens of states that have yet to submit plans for improving air quality in protected areas. Environmental nonprofits are suing the EPA to compel the agency to take action.

Steve Mahfood, former director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, says Herculaneum’s not-so-distant past stands as a compelling reminder of how community members and state officials can band together to hold a polluter accountable.

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.

The money will be used to help hospitals with staffing and to set up five sites to give antibodies to high-risk patients.

In this episode, we discuss the science behind Missouri’s many sinkholes and learn how the city of St. Louis was developed upon porous and uncertain terrain.

The federal agency is investigating whether Missouri violated civil rights in issuing an air quality permit.

Earlier this year, after being approached by the Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, Karisa Gilman-Hernandez and her colleagues at Dutchtown South Community Corporation added excessive air pollution to the list of things they're no longer willing to see the community they serve just put up with. She offered her perspective to "St. Louis on the Air," and host Sarah Fenske also talked with Great Rivers staff attorneys Bob Menees and Sarah Rubenstein about why the pollution burden in the Dutchtown area caught their eye — and how their legal efforts there fit in with other issues in their portfolio.

More than 100 residents have reported chemical, musty or mildew odors in the surrounding area.

The Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, on behalf of three Missouri organizations, has filed a complaint with the EPA over permits issued by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. The complaint says the permits allow excessive pollution in predominantly Black and low-income neighborhoods.

Missouri health and environmental officials will soon test wastewater statewide to determine where and when coronavirus outbreaks could occur. Researchers…