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2003 Environment Stories

• 12/ 5/2003: Newspaper Story - State officials say they'll have less money for hazardous waste cleanup and enforcement activities unless legislators extend the collection fees that support them. And with fewer funds available for individual state efforts, the Environmental Protection Agency may have to assume a greater role in the activities.
• 11/21/2003: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Department of Conservation is using an new testing method to see if the state's deer Chronic Wasting Disease.
• 11/18/2003: Radio Story - Army Corp of Engineer's new management plan will not alter water levels to protect wildlife, but the drought conservation plan is more conservative. Senator Kit Bond says the plan is a step in the right direction.
• 11/14/2003: Radio Story - The retirement incentive law allowed state park employees to retire and avoid higher insurance rates. The law only allows the parks to fill twenty-five percent of the jobs vacated. This may lead to less maintenance, shorter hours, and the closing of some sites.
• 11/14/2003: Newspaper Story - It's just the trees' natural defense that's caused a boring Missouri fall, according to the state's conservation department.
• 11/11/2003: Radio Story - SSO's cause raw sewage to be dumped into rivers and waterways
• 10/ 2/2003: Radio Story - The Department of Natural Resources says that almost half of Missouri's trash is being recycled
• 9/25/2003: Radio Story - Missouri law says that most trucks can't weigh more than 80,000 pounds, but State Auditor Claire McCaskill says the Highway Patrol is lax in enforcing the rule.
• 5/ 6/2003: Radio Story - A tornado warning in Jefferson City forced an evacuation of all lawmakers and lobbyists down to the basement of the capitol.
• 4/ 2/2003: Radio Story - Nearly ten years after the great floods of '93, the House Conservation Committee is considering a bill that would protect flood plain land from future growth.
• 4/ 2/2003: Radio Story - Utility companies around the state say they oppose a proposed House bill that would protect farm land from being taken for public use.
• 3/19/2003: Newspaper Story - Conservation area now closed around nuclear plant since nation is at level orange.
• 3/12/2003: Radio Story - A proposed bill would require the Department of Conservation to pay for accidents involving deer.