Missouri Coalition for the Environment

Brave New Films explores the idea that exposure to cancer-causing chemicals causes cancer in disempowered contaminated communities in “Koch Brothers Exposed”. The laws authorize EPA to stop this, but politicians have stepped in the way trying to destroy the EPA and the Clean Water Act.

What you can do:

1. Call YOUR congressperson and ask that the EPA be strengthened to do its job to keep water clean and people safe. Koch Industries needs to clean up its act.
2. Buy recycled toilet paper.
3. Boycott Koch. There are plenty of opportunities to keep your money out of Koch pockets. Do not buy these:

Angel Soft toilet paper
Brawny paper towels
Dixie plates, bowls, napkins and cups
Mardi Gras napkins and towels
Quilted Northern toilet paper
Soft ‘n Gentle toilet paper
Sparkle napkins
Vanity fair napkins
Zee napkins
Georgia-Pacific paper products and envelopes
All Georgia-Pacific lumber and building products, including:
Dense Armor Drywall and Decking
ToughArmor Gypsum board
Georgia pacific Plytanium Plywood
Flexrock
Densglass sheathing
G/P Industrial plasters (some products used by a lot of crafters)
FibreStrong Rim board
G/P Lam board
Blue Ribbon OSB Rated Sheathing
Blue Ribbon Sub-floor
DryGuard Enhanced OSB
Nautilus Wall Sheathing
Thermostat OSB Radiant Barrier Sheathing
Broadspan Engineered Wood Products
XJ 85 I-Joists
FireDefender Banded Cores
FireDefender FS
FireDefender Mineral Core
Hardboard and Thin MDF including Auto Hardboard,
Perforated Hardboard and Thin MDF
Wood Fiberboard
Commercial Roof Fiberboard
Hushboard Sound Deadening Board
Regular Fiberboard Sheathing
Structural Fiberboard Sheathing

(INVISTA Products):
COMFOREL® fiberfill
COOLMAX® fabric
CORDURA® fabric
DACRON® fiber
POLYSHIELD® resin
SOLARMAX® fabric
SOMERELLE® bedding products
STAINMASTER® carpet
SUPPLEX® fabric
TACTEL® fiber
TACTESSE® carpet fiber
TERATE® polyols
TERATHANE® polyether glycol
THERMOLITE® fabric
PHENREZ® resin
POLARGUARD® fiber and
LYCRA® fiber

Maryland Heights Residents for Responsible Growth are calling for all area residents to attend the Public Hearing on the Creve Coeur Lake – Maryland Heights Hearing on “Maryland Pointe” Floodplain Project October 11th.

We have opposed this ill conceived “retail destination” development from the beginning, finding it fails to justify the destruction of one of the most treasured natural areas in the region at the area’s only natural lake. When many of our region’s “retail destinations” now sit empty- shopping malls, strip malls, business parks, office plazas, and even warehouses – it seems like a foolish plan indeed and one that once done, will be hard to un-do.

Maryland Heights Planning Commission-Public Hearing
Tuesday October 11,2011  7pm

Maryland Heights Government Center

11911 Dorsett Rd, 63043

Current River- Ozark National Scenic Riverways

Friends of Ozark Riverways and MCE are petitioning the National Park Service (NPS) to improve their management of Missouri’s finest river, the Current River. There are two ways you can help.

Sign the Current River Petition Online! Visit the website www.CurrentRiverFriends.org. In the upper right of the homepage is the link to our petition. Signing up is the easiest way to help us this summer. Do it today, and then ask others to do the same. Our website is also the place to go for more information about our issue.

Help Collect Signatures the Old-Fashioned Way! If you prefer, we have attached an electronic file from which you can print the petition language and a signature sheet. Summer is the perfect opportunity to ask family, friends, and neighbors.

Nationally, American Rivers has been collecting signatures from those interested in the Current River. Our own Missouri effort is beginning to reach out across the state. We are asking each organization affiliated with Friends of Ozark Riverways to help us collect signatures.

Allied organizations are hard at work. Environment Missouri collected signatures at Earth Day and continues that effort as they visit neighborhoods in St. Louis talking about Current River. Sierra Club members in Kansas City have begun to distribute petitions to their leadership and collect signatures from their members. River rats in Springfield are working together to see just how many they can gather from southwest Missouri. Others also are working on gathering signatures in Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, West Plains, Farmington, and Cape Girardeau.

Later this year we will present these petitions to NPS officials and Missouri’s elected officials. These signatures, from hundreds of citizens, are our most powerful call to the NPS to improve its river and park management at Ozark National Scenic Riverways.

Return signature sheets with one or more signatures to: Friends of Ozark Riverways, P.O. Box 1022, Van Buren, MO 63965.

Politicians make hay of Missouri River flooding to gut river restoration programs- which, ironically, will cause more flooding and cost taxpayers more over time. Geez!

See http://www.stlbeacon.org/region/111758-lawmakers-slash-missouri-river-ecosystem-plans-in-the-name-of-flood-control