Missouri
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Tofurky is suing over Missouri’s definition of ‘meat’
The suit seeks to defend the right to market meatless products with meaty words on First Amendment grounds.
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This Kansas City neighborhood wrote the blueprint for transforming a community
Inner-city Ivanhoe, once a haven for drugs and illegal dumping, is now a beacon of revitalization.
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St. Louis Zoo builds love hotel for salamanders
Ozark hellbenders, aka "snot otters" and "lasagna sides," are among the world's largest and least cute salamanders. Looking at them, it’s probably not a big surprise that they’re having a hard time breeding -- although inexplicably, scientists think it’s NOT because of their pancake heads or beady little eyes, but some problem in the natural environment. Now that there are fewer than 600 hellbenders left in Ozark rivers, scientists at the Saint Louis Zoo decided to step in and create a place for the salamanders to get it on.
The salamanders' love nest is a simulated river built to bring out amorous feelings in hideous beasties:The zoo has built a kind of honeymoon resort for salamanders, assembling a mini water treatment plant and carefully tweaking water chemistry to recreate their cold, fast-flowing Ozark streams — minus any distracting predators or pollution. ...
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Missouri puts payoff of local power in peril
The Missouri legislature's move to jeopardize the state's renewable energy standard misses the huge economic benefits of local clean energy.
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Critical List: Tornado hits Joplin, Missouri; Chicago preps for climate change
A half-mile wide tornado leveled a Missouri town. And another volcano in Iceland poured ash into the sky. Cut it out, nature, we get it: you don't like airplanes. In Chicago, government officials not only believe in climate change, they are preparing the city for a steamier future. Local officials have been leading on adaptation […]
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Coal Victories and Challenges
Every week it seems as if there’s coal-related news to celebrate and to challenge us. We celebrated last week’s decision from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Lisa Jackson to veto the water permit for the massive Spruce No. 1 mountaintop removal coal mining site in West Virginia. Administrator Jackson’s brave step stopped a mountaintop […]
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Obama’s Partnership for Sustainable Communities will put the feds’ weight behind smart growth
The word “silos” is most often used to talk about grain or coal, not the federal government. But in the case of transportation and housing — two sectors that accounted for more than 43 percent of the nation’s carbon emissions in 2008 — Washington’s siloed approach of divided, blindered policymaking could put wheat farmers to […]
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Even with economic headwind, U.S. still adds 4,000 MW of new wind — and a dozen new factories
The U.S. wind energy industry installed 1,210 megawatts (MW) of new power generating capacity in the second quarter, bringing the total added this year to just over 4,000 MW – an amount larger than the 2,900 MW added in the first six months of 2008, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said today in its […]
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Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
Claire McCaskillSen. Claire McCaskill doesn’t think the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill that passed the House in June stands much chance of passing the Senate, and she would not support the bill as it stands. During House debate on the legislation, McCaskill expressed her concerns via Twitter: “I hope we can fix cap and trade […]