Missouri Coalition for the Environment

Heat is the deadliest weather event. A new initiative hopes to protect St. Louisans from extreme heat that climate change is making worse.

Critics say the Missouri legislation debated this week could jeopardize the state’s groundwater and 136,000 miles of streams.

Community outreach about radioactive waste has been left largely to local environmental organizations.

There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report.

A growing community of Black farmers in St. Louis is working to feed residents in areas with few traditional grocery stores, but for some, the costs of getting started are a major hurdle. A small group of growers and food justice advocates is trying to ease the burden on these aspiring farmers by offering a lending “tool bank” in north city.

Black people and other minorities who work for mainstream environmental advocacy organizations in the St. Louis region struggle to fit in and make their ideas heard. But without them, environmental organizations are ill-equipped to serve communities of color.

The Sierra Club, the Missouri Coalition for the Environment and other St. Louis-area environmental groups have released public statements to express support for the Black Lives Matter movement. But the largely white organizations, which focus on policy and outdoor recreation, have found it difficult to address environmental problems that affect predominantly black St. Louis neighborhoods.

Environmental organizations in Missouri and Illinois have filed a federal lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers, alleging that dikes and other…

St. Louis has made it a little easier for residents of one ward to buy land for urban agriculture.The Land Reutilization Authority, which manages the…

An advisory group's recommendations to Gov. Mike Parson that state and federal agencies largely focus on repairing and strengthening levees will not do…