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Headline	Author	Published	Section
MO-mentum The push for a renewable energy standard in Missouri	Adam Browning	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: state politics, politics, Missouri, renewable energy, energy (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: A flood of coverage A recap of our week on the river	Sarah van Schagen	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Iowa, Mississippi River, Missouri, placemaking, Tennessee (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: The end of the road On politics, ponyshoes, and PBR	Katharine Wroth	28 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: placemaking, Mississippi River, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Energy Not the coal and gas kind, though we've seen lots of that	Katharine Wroth	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Mississippi River, Missouri, placemaking (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: One man's trash St. Louis' City Museum is a treasure	Sarah van Schagen	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Mississippi River, Missouri, placemaking (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Baseball edition In which I say a little prayer for the Sox	Katharine Wroth	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Missouri, placemaking, sports (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Tax thyself Guess what happens when communities cough up cash?	Katharine Wroth	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Missouri, Mississippi River, Iowa, placemaking, education (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Same trip, different rivers Reflections on a changing river	Sarah van Schagen	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Iowa, Mississippi River, placemaking, Missouri (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Ponyshoe edition $5 could be yours	Katharine Wroth	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Missouri, Mississippi River, placemaking, food (all these topics)

Engineer Miss Army Corps must halt work on destructive Missouri river project		17 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:30 PM on 17 Sep 2007 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was ordered this weekend to cease work on a Mississippi River flood-control project in Missouri that would have cut the river off from its last remaining floodplain, devastated tens of thousands of acres of wetlands, and, um, not controlled flooding. Ordering the Corps to remove any part of the project built so far and restore the area to its historic c ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River, Missouri, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Everything's Up To Date in Kansas City Power & Light Sierra Club makes groundbreaking deal with Midwest utility		21 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Everything's Up To Date in Kansas City Power & Light Sierra Club makes groundbreaking deal with Midwest utility If a groundbreaking deal between an electric company and the Sierra Club is any indication, we can all get along. Aww. The green group has agreed to quit a six-year campaign against a new Missouri coal plant being built by Kansas City Power & Light; in return, the utility will cut 6 m ...
Topics: carbon neutral, energy, Missouri, news, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Miles to Go An interview with Missouri farmer and ethanol co-op member Brian Miles	Yolanda Crous	13 Dec 2006	Main Dish
Cultivating change? Photo: iStockphoto Like his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather before him, Brian Miles spends his days working the family farm. Unlike his forebears, however, he also sits on the board of Mid-Missouri Energy, a farmer-owned ethanol cooperative in Malta Bend, Mo. Grist talked to Miles about the present ethanol boom, the potential for an ethanol bust, and the ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, business, energy, ethanol, interview, Missouri (all these topics)

Take Your Pick Environmentalists pick their sides in key Senate races	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Sep 2006	Muckraker
It's a rare political event that can draw applause from both the White House and environmental groups, but Lincoln Chafee's victory in the Rhode Island Republican primary on Tuesday was just that. Lincoln Chafee. The Bush administration reasons that Chafee -- the most liberal Republican in the Senate, and frequently at odds with Bush on hot-button issues from Iraq to tax cuts -- is their on ...
Topics: elections, League of Conservation Voters, Missouri, Montana, Muckraker, Pennsylvania, politics, Rhode Island, Sierra Club, US Senate, Washington (all these topics)

Bond Ambition Missouri senator delays small-engine pollution regulation, again		10 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Bond Ambition Missouri senator delays small-engine pollution regulation, again Small engines have a big impact -- when you use a standard gas-powered lawn mower for an hour, you've spewed as much pollution as 50 cars driving 20 miles each. Nevertheless, someone builds those small engines, and that means jobs -- specifically, jobs in Missouri, or more specifically yet, jobs at engine manufacturer Briggs & ...
Topics: Missouri, news, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Poultry in Motion Poultry-to-oil plant in Missouri struggling to survive		14 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Poultry in Motion Poultry-to-oil plant in Missouri struggling to survive Like many renewable-energy ventures, a high-profile processing plant in Carthage, Mo., built to turn turkey waste into usable crude oil has been struggling to survive. Touted as a solution to foreign-oil addiction (but not to global warming), the plant cooks down 270 tons of bird leftovers into 300 barrels of oil a day. Turns out the technology works ...
Topics: Missouri, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

Big Duddy Missouri River management plan to be election-year hot potato	Amanda Griscom	03 Mar 2004	Muckraker
Basically, the Army Corps has flipped us the bird -- at a time when it's supposed to be saving the birds." Hello, Big Muddy. Photo: FWS. That's how Eric Eckl, spokesperson for American Rivers, sums up the Army Corps of Engineers' new plan to manage the Missouri River, released on Friday to blistering protest and threats of a new round of lawsuits from the environmental community. The p ...
Topics: American Rivers, Army Corps of Engineers, dams, energy, Missouri, Missouri River, Muckraker, National Academy of Sciences, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Turf Wars Missouri, California Clash Over Air-Quality Plan		05 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Turf Wars Missouri, California Clash Over Air-Quality Plan A proposal to reduce air pollution from lawn mowers and other gas-powered outdoor equipment has set the stage for a battle between the staid Midwestern state of Missouri and the kooky Californians. To help deal with the Golden State's chronic air-quality problem, the California Air Resource ...
Topics: air pollution, business, California, commercial and industry organizations, Michigan, Missouri, politics (all these topics)

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi Six states whose waters feed the lower Mississippi River agreed this week to work together to reduce the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizers, sewage, and other nutrient-rich pollutio ...
Topics: Arkansas, food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Doe, Oh Dear!		19 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Doe, Oh Dear! In the latest sad litany of pro-extraction industry decisions handed down by the federal government, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday that the Doe Run Company should be allowed to drill up to 232 holes in Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest to search for possible lead mining sites. About 80 percent of the n ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, Missouri, pollution and waste, toxics, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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